Yesterday and this morning the monsters at Business Insider were click baiting their readers with the spurious headline/link “Google will be making your Profile public.” That claim is simply not true. As of August 1st, Google will simply be deleting private Google profiles. How does this impact you? it doesn’t.
I’m pissed I even wasted my time clicking that crap and now I’m getting angrier by the second for even blogging about it. Anyway, here is the straight dope right from Google’s mouth:
Public profiles
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.
Here’s the link to the above. Enjoy.
