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Google+ Profiles Will Be Public: Google To Terminate All Private Profiles After July 31st

The purpose of Google Profiles is to enable you to manage your online identity. Today, nearly all Google Profiles are public. We believe that using Google Profiles to help people find and connect with you online is how the product is best used. Private profiles don’t allow this, so we have decided to require all profiles to be public.

Keep in mind that your full name and gender are the only required information that will be displayed on your profile; you’ll be able to edit or remove any other information that you don’t want to share.

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.

What happens to all those fake spam profiles?    Time to start reviewing all of those dusty old Gmail accounts I haven't logged into for years.

I wonder how the Privacy Advocates will react/respond to this.

Besides, I like being a Dog. 

Have to say I wasn't a believer in Google+ when you guys were discussing it earlier this month but having just typed in "iphone resolution" into Google.com and seen some fella named Brain X. Chen have a featured photo next to his listing I'm now a convert. It's gotta help with the CTR.

http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+resolution&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB

You can get a pic like that up from playing around with the Rich Snippets Testing Tool in Webmasters.

Cheers,

Ed