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Differences Between Facebook and Google+

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Google+ provides easier access to options for sharing information than Facebook does. Google+ Circles allows its users to select which of their friends they want to share certain things (such as a photo or post) with, while not allowing the others to see them. And the privacy selections that Facebook does provide are very limited.

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Google Plus Expands Reach to Include 13 and Above Teen Market

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Google originally rolled out its Google Plus service only to those with ages 18 and above. Apparently, this new development is part of Google’s overall rollout plan for their Google Plus; this being the third or fourth installment in a series and with each rollout followed by some announcement of their membership figures.

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Google Integrates Social and Search with “Search Plus Your World”

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Get ready, because Google is getting personal. The new launch of Google’s “Search Plus Your World” is the latest evolution in the Internet giant’s ever-expanding wave of algorithm restructuring in an effort to refine users’ search results, and unlike other frequent tweaks this change will be hard to miss.

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How Much Does Google Know About You?

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After all, when you are the biggest search engine in the world, you pretty much own the internet, and you know more about your users than they even know, it’s pretty easy to see why people are paranoid about what Google knows. So what does Google know about you? Google also knows where you are.

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Four Useful Dropbox iPhone Apps

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The article makes a terrific point in that people feel more secure saving their most cherished data with a company like Dropbox that isn’t as pervasive as behemoths Google, Microsoft or Apple. Besides, privacy is overrated. Of course many these days are concerned that such info is ripe for dissemination by crooks and spies and such.

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4 Android Apps for Facebook

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Some have criticized the fearless founder, Mr. Zuckerberg and his company for invading privacy. This now omnipresent application, and Google, has almost completely replaced that big fat environmentally destructive phone book. As Sir McCartney opined, ‘What’s Wrong with That?’ The FTC apparently agreed and Facebook is fully cooperating.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Online Social Networking

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Additionally you will be asked to fill out an “About Me&# segment, as well as choose your own “ Privacy&# settings, here you may decide who is allowed to view your profile details as well as how much access is to be allowed, to the information in your profile. Post on Google Buzz. Email this to a friend? Share this on Facebook.