Google+ is out with an option, to let users decide, whether they wasn’t others to comment on their posts or no. At the same time, one can even prevent their posted content from being re-shared. These two additions have been the highlight from the updates one notices on Google+. However, these are not the only updates one would feel, using Google+. Earlier this month, there were additions such as notifications in the browser bar and the release of public APIs for Plus search, comments, and +1s.
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Recently, Ebby Amirebrahimi, a member of the Google+ sharing team announced the major news as he said that users can now disable comments or lock a post prior to publishing that post. If one locks their post, others would be prevented from re-sharing the said post.
Earlier, Google+ offered the restrictive sharing options as one could make use of ‘Circles’ and could share a post in their preferred circles. Along with it, users could even disable comments and lock sharing post-publication, which made one’s process longer than necessary and leaving a window of vulnerability. But with this new extension, one can directly use the option from the sharing button (the same Google+ element where you select which circles you want to share with) and thus can access the “disable comments” and “lock this post” options.
Google, with its new social networking site had started with a couple of advantages over Facebook, which included security. Now Facebook has improved its security, Google+ goes +1 yet again as it has added more privacy settings for users’ comments. Google+ would be knowing the fact that improving its stand against Facebook would not be easy and hitting the right button can only help their cause. Facebook users have been quite frustrated of late with the privacy options and continue to be privacy-conscious. This could be the best open option for Google+, until Facebook improves its privacy settings.
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The new improved privacy settings would even guide many Facebook users to Google+, who have used the Smart List feature on Facebook. Reason for the same was that many Facebook users see the social networking giant’s Smart List as a type of privacy violation.
Google+ has been in its beta stage for quite some time, which opened to the public not before late September. Since then, it has been on a spree to catch the eyes of many non-users of Google+ to come in and use the privacy measures to protect their posts from prying eyes.
Along with the privacy update, Google even had a minor aesthetic update pinned to their post. The update noted that the users would now be able to view an update immediately as soon as they get a new notification. These notifications would flash on one’s browser bar. The Next Web notes this as an incentive for those users who prefer staying updated on their Google+ updates.