UPDATE:
Clarifications from Google:
If you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public, you can delete your profile. Or, you can simply do nothing. All private profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011.
That’s more like it. I’ve deleted my personal Google Profile anyway.
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Search Engine Land reported that Google+ Profiles Will Be Public: Google To Terminate All Private Profiles After July 31st.
Good move, Google. I just remembered to delete my Google Profile, the personal one. I do have a different account that has no personal information other than my professional experience.
Let’s take a look at part of my to-do-list:
- Delete Facebook Profile – done
- Delete personal Google Profile – done
- Not joining Google+ – done
What’s next Google? What about fending off Microsoft from threatening manufacturers over Android and Chrome?
And you can still control what information you share on your profile. The bare minimum is your name and gender. You can also hide your profile from showing up in search results, which makes it effectively private.
If you’re still scared of all this, Google makes it very easy get your information out of Google services and then delete your profile, or even your entire Google account — just visit the account settings page and scroll to the bottom.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/there-will-be-no-more-private-google-profiles-after-july-31-2011-7#ixzz1RHNl2X7N
I’m not scared, just being silly and hopefully sarcastic.
Forcing all profile to be public is a lesser of “don’t be evil” bit.