Some people have lost a long history and lots of emails.
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jul 26, 2011 8:32:33 am PDT #18099 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
askye - Jul 26, 2011 8:34:00 am PDT #18100 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I thought it dropped everything BUT your gmail account.
Consuela - Jul 26, 2011 8:36:57 am PDT #18101 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
It drops everything associated with the google account.
I've seen mixed reports on that. The thing is, people who are losing their accounts aren't always told why, and there are two primary categories: 1) naming violations, and 2) unspecified TOS violations.
It appears that people who lose their Google+ account because Google doesn't like the name only lose the Google+ account. They keep their gmail, etc--this is what happened to Skud.
People who lose their account for unspecified TOS reasons lose the entire account, including email, calendar, etc. The problem is that the TOS reasons could be naming violations, or not. Google isn't saying, because there's no customer service.
Which is why I'm not going anywhere near Google+ right now--among the potential TOS violations are violations of copyright, so if they're enforcing it and I link approvingly to a piece of fanfic, does that mean they'll shut me down? It's not worth the risk to me.
Polter-Cow - Jul 26, 2011 8:39:00 am PDT #18102 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It drops everything associated with the google account.
Holy crap, are you serious? That's...what the fuck?! I wouldn't want to associate a social networking account with my Google account to begin with; I have enough things bundled into that. The fact that shenanigans with a Google+ account could destroy years of web history (I don't use Gmail anyway) is a strike against it.
Steph L. - Jul 26, 2011 8:48:04 am PDT #18103 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Do no evil, my ass.
I think I will stick with the known shiftiness of FB (whose motto, I believe, is "Feed the Zuckerbeast!")
Consuela - Jul 26, 2011 8:49:44 am PDT #18104 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I think I will stick with the known shiftiness of FB
And my FB account isn't associated with my Google account, anyway.
askye - Jul 26, 2011 8:53:33 am PDT #18105 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
This whole thing makes me want to use fewer of Google's products.
Tom Scola - Jul 26, 2011 8:55:44 am PDT #18106 of 30001
hwæt
You're not Google's customer. Google's advertisers are their customers. You're Google's product.
Jesse - Jul 26, 2011 8:57:10 am PDT #18107 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ditto Facebook, of course. I do think the different ways they (mis)treat users are interesting, in some kind of corporate-culture-analysis way.
Amy - Jul 26, 2011 8:58:31 am PDT #18108 of 30001
Because books.
Now I'm nervous. My Gmail email account is my only account, really. I'm using the Internet wrong.