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Google+ allows users to decide who can notify them


Search giant Google stepped up the privacy of its upcoming social network Google+ by allowing members to determine who can notify them. Google software engineer Kathleen Ko said that while Circles let members control who they share with, the new feature lets them decide who can notify them. "Now you can decide who can notify you on Google+!" she said in a post on her Google+ account. Ko said the control is accessible at https://plus.google.com/settings/plus. She said this setting controls who a member can get notifications from, if they:

  • Share with you individually,
  • Select ‘Notify about this post’ (when sharing to a circle you’re in),
  • +Mention your name,
  • Invite you to a hangout, and
  • Invite you to play or send you messages from a game. But she said a member will still be notified if someone comments on one of his/her posts or adds him/her to a circle. Ko said the “Who can notify you" setting is initially set to Extended circles but a user can change this to be Your circles, Anyone, or a custom selection of specific circles and individuals. She said Google will roll out this feature slowly. A separate article on The Next Web noted this may be good for popular users who are forced to deal with spammy notifications. These users have no way to handle the chaos other than repeatedly clicking away the little red notification numbers in their dashboards, it said. "We’ve already seen the G+ team respond to demands for comment and post-locking before sharing on the service, another sought-after feature from regulars of the G+ platform. Now with better notification controls, users will be able to customize their individual experiences even further. Bravo, Google+. It’s about time," it said. — RSJ, GMA News
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