Alright, mothableepers
Everyone on here who know me at all, knows I talk to practically everyone on G+.
I post, hangout with and share comments and Gtalk chats with the "cool kids", the Googlers/staff, etc., the people who are n00bs on here, the "trolls" and pretty much everyone in between. I have HIRLed in person with many people I've met through G+. Hell, I even tried to play nice with the Turd himself, but he went too far and made some ladies I respect feel hurt, so that's why he can't see this post. I don't hate him, he just is on timeout for a bit. *Please respect this decision of mine*, and don't judge me on it. It's between me and him, and not anyone else on here.
I'm posting this to say that I'm sick and fracking tired of all the stupid wars between
I have had some of my posts in the last day or so turn into big debates and even get ugly, between users who were angry about some people being banned.
I tend to even mute some of my posts after some point, that's my right. Muting is everyone's right, and something I want to emphasize and further expand upon...
The points I want to make are as follows:
► We ALL agreed to a Terms of Service when we registered for an account.
► This means we all agree to use the space in a way that complies. If we don't, we AGREE that the services can be restricted to us as individuals, or we can be removed from the service. PERIOD.
► I respect anonymoty as much as anyone. If you wish to be anonymous, I have no beef with you.
► I am not here to do anything really other than have fun and (mostly) play nice (naw, I do mean that).
If you don't like something someone says in a comment you have several options:
a) You can ignore them. You can try to reason with them, or give them some of their own medicine (read: trolls love this, so don't bother feeding them); or you can simply uncircle or block them.
b) If someone says something that's not a death threat or is not illegal, there's no need to report them. I mean, that's entirely up to you, I can't tell you what to do on here, but G+ put the reporting system into place for PROPER reporting of that kind of thing. I would frankly like to know how these reports are handled...perhaps Natalie Villalobos or some other Community folks can help answer this.
If you don't like things that people post in the stream, you can do a few things:
► If you see porn or other NSFW content in your stream posted by someone you have mutually circled for other reasons, yet just don't appreciate that sort of content coming from them, there are ways you can avoid this being a problem for you. You can ask them to remove you from that type of circle (it happens sometimes, that we are unorganized, be polite in your request, and make it a personal post, not a public one). You can also move them to a circle specifically set that you don't view in the stream during certain hours of your G+ activity (i.e., work hours, home with the kids on the computer, etc.)
► If you don't care for someone on here, you can uncircle them or ignore them completely. I realize that blocking is an option as well, but due to the mutual circling of people, it can be hard to totally obliterate someone's name from appearing in your stream.
► We don't need to use this space to bash one another, act like children and tattle-tale, or tell/bully others into doing the same. The info I'm sharing here should help everyone better understand (I hope) how to best take care of such matters.
Here is a page you can go to, if you get suspended from the service, bookmark it/save it:
http://support.google.com/plus/bin/request.py?contact_type=profile_suspension
I don't want to go back to being dependent on Facebonk for my social online activities, as I am sure many of you do not wish to.
I don't want to go back to being dependent on Facebonk for my social online activities, as I am sure many of you do not wish to.
If you don't like some feature or terms of this service, you have a VOICE. Use it positively to engage with the Google staff on here. They are here to listen to us, and make this continue to be a better place for all of us than FB and Twitter/what-have-you.
The Google team has public Hangouts at least every Thursday (last time I checked) and they are open to listening to us. I have heard so many in the webosphere say that G+ doesn't "get social", and maybe that's partly true, but I have to give them credit for offering to listen and take in feedback in a way that trumps any other social space. Where the HECK else online, can you Hangout with Vic Gundotra, Louis Gray, Hangout director Chee Chew and other Google/Google+ powers-that-be, let alone tag them into conversations about how things work here, right alongside movers and shakers of the web like Matthew Inman, artists and ordinary folks like us who keep this place on its toes?
Let's please keep this in mind, have fun, and build helpful dialogs and relationships with one another!
I might be forgetting some stuff here, but it's because I have a lot of shitty shit going on in my personal life right now, and I just wanted to get this crapfest off my chest.
#FreeEveryone
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