More and more Bloggers fall in the trap and subscribe to Google+ otherwise they are not allowed to comment on a Blog !
How often it happens to me that I get a comment with a link to the Blog. When I click on the link a Google+ page appears. Now I have to do FBI investigations to find the blog link on the Google+ page and most of the time there is none ! No way to comment on the Blog without becoming member of the "Circle" I don't want to be member of a circle, I just want to comment.
I try to find an email address, just to inform the person that I am unable to comment, but to 90 % there is no email address either. I hate to be forced into something I don't like and my opinion is that Google behaves more and more like a Dictator ! Where is the freedom of choice ? So what do I do after having tried for a while to find the corresponding link to the Blog ? I give up and don't comment !
Where are the good old times when you got a comment, and you could reply so easily ? It gets more and more complicated but I am proud to say, so far I could avoid to fall into the Google+ trap.
Gattina
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I am on with you there!
ReplyDeleteI have the same frustrations sometimes and the same end result. No comment left.
I'm glad I have company on the non-google+ side. :)
Me too Gattina! I won't be dictated to.
ReplyDeleteApart from that it is difficult to manage all social networking sites.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think you're quite right, I have not fallen into the trap of Google +, but visits to my blog through searches on google have almost disappeared, I think it is like punishment!
ReplyDeleteI would like for them to just leave Blogger alone-hope they do.
ReplyDeleteAnn
Very good Gattina! You couldn't have said it better.
ReplyDeleteI hear your frustration. I am annoyed, too.
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ReplyDeleteGoogle has a strangle hold on us. Hope we survive. :) Happy G to all!!
well google+ have their own set of loyalists but yeah anything google and there is google+. Great post !
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http://throodalookingglass.com/2014/02/squirrel1/
I can relate to this. I haven't gone with google plus and am not able to comment on some google plus blogs but other google plus have their comments set up so I can comment so it's a mix. Great idea for a G introduction.
ReplyDeleteI resisted joining Google+ for a while and at first you just made circles with people you were familiar with but as you say I tend to visit folk through their blogs when they comment on mine - FB is fine because you don't need to react with total strangers - I'm constantly being put into the circles of folk I haven't the faintest idea who they are and the names of many suggest they are sites I really do not want to have contact with - I don't have to add them but I can't stop them adding me - on FB I can refuse friend requests and on twitter I can block any followers I don't want. I don't plan to cut my nose to spoil my face but I'm exercising caution.
ReplyDeleteGREETINGS oh GREAT ABCWednesday team! Thanks as always for your hard work.
ReplyDeleteyes I feel the same way!! I can't stand google+. I find it so difficult to respond to a commenter on my blog. Sometimes I am able to find their blog but other times I just can't seem to do it and so am not able to return the visit.
ReplyDeleteI HAVE THE ANSWER!!!! Follow this link to blend blogger with a google+ account. That way you can still comment without being committed to google+. I will also put it in the meme.
ReplyDeletehttp://blogger-hints-and-tips.blogspot.ca/2013/10/setting-up-a-google-plus-profile-for-a-blogger-or-gmail-account.html
I think it's a new way of Big Brother to keep track of our every move. Blessings!
ReplyDeleteI don't have Google+ either, and if I can't leave a comment I don't usually go back to that blog. I left Blogger awhile ago because of all the changes.
ReplyDeleteI have the same issues with Google+. I have no way to contact the person about the obstacle Google+ creates to commenting. so they likely think I'm ignoring them, which is not the case. There must be a filter that allows non-Goggle+ users to make comments as I know several people who have a Google+ account yet you can comment on their blogs Goggle+ seems to be a solution without a problem.
ReplyDeleteGreat write-up! 'G' is for Gattina:) Thank you for hosting:)
ReplyDeletehttp://amitaag.blogspot.in/2014/02/groundwork.html
I did mine for Garden... very nice posts this week. Browsing through them now.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you here! its so irritating at times and honestly I am not able to find out the use of Google+ anyway
ReplyDeleteI guess we all feel the same way about Google +, basing on the comments. Very well said, Gattina. Oh, G is for Gattina, too. :)
ReplyDeleteAs I never had a Facebook account, and as a Blogspot user, I've had to put up with Google+, but I hear you.
ReplyDeleteSome green leaves in a garden for G Wednesday from me.
Rain in the garden,
ReplyDeleteMaking it green, lush, gladsome;
Glorifies God's gifts.
i still very rarely use google+...now they keep wanting me to merge all my stuff with them, everytime i shut my computer down and come back on, there it is, the little offer to merge it all into google+...no thank you!
ReplyDeleteGreen, green, green grass!
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ReplyDeleteI hear you! It happened to me a bunch of times here at ABC. I wanted to comment on a nice post, but ended up giving it up because I wolud have to join Google+. I don't don't want to do it yet. I'm still resisting being part of the Circle...
ReplyDeleteI agree wholeheartedly. There is not much plus at all about Google+.
ReplyDeleteI'm having issues with inlinkz. Could you add my entry please?
ReplyDeletehttp://fredamans.blogspot.ca/2014/02/g-is-for-gold-budgies.html
whew, I had no idea that Google+ could cause such problems! I think I have my blog sites set up so that anyone can comment. If it's not, I'd appreciate someone to alert me
ReplyDeleteNonnie at- http://nonniesobservations.blogspot.com
thanks
So true Gattina. Its a pain. Someone asked me a question on my blog but I couldn't reply to them because the link led to their Google+ page and wouldn't let me access without registering. Evil Google. so much for the connectivity, apparently open access only on Google's terms.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have fallen into the Goggle + trap.
ReplyDeleteG for Google , gear ,grandmother , gratitude , glue..............