Meh, it works well enough for me. Which is what matters. Along with the mobile app.

Someone already said in a reply, but it'll take years of gross neglect for 900 million people to switch. G+'s major flaw is it was beat to the punch. It happens.

Sorry, its still a ghost town.

In all honesty, I like G+, and if it came around before FB, I would probably use it since I use a lot of Google services, but they just came along in the game too late and messed up opening to the public. I have 800 (legit) friends on fb, why would I bother them to migrate everything to G+ when FB works well enough?

tl;dr - Its a ghost town.

Sorry, that is incorrect. And I currently do work supporting the war in Afghanistan which I just came back from in '11, so this is the experience I am talking from.

Take the two wars the US is currently involved in. The war on "terror" and supporting S Korea which is technically still at war with N Korea. Yes, both still involve boots-on-ground action, but everything you mentioned is in the past. Which is correct. But is the old ways of fighting wars. My statement of "anymore" means the bulk of the pushing, seek and destroy missions aren't done with boots on ground. Count up the cause from causalities of troop fighting and drone killings and you'll see the difference I am talking about.

Sure.

Wars arent fought with ground troops anymore. Whats a machine gun going to do to a Hellfile missile sent from a predator? Miss horribly while it and its wielder melt.

True.

And as a pen tester, I've yet to use this on an online network. 100% non-issue for me.

And there is the disconnect between geeks and non geeks, or on a broader term, laymen and non-laymen.

EVEN IF OF THEIR OWN DOING, people are going to construe an app that takes information they themselves provide and use it in such a manner as creepy.
I understand they need to lock down their profile.
But that isnt the point. Its the perception.

There is a staunch difference in the scenario you are depicting and what this app was aimed to do, just as there is a difference in what the app is aimed to do versus what Facebook and Foursquare are aimed to do.

Dont get me wrong, I am not saying the users should not carry most of the blame because they should, and yes, legally they are (the app maker) doing nothing wrong. And im as liberal as they come when it comes to rights
. . . but its still creepy as shit

And?

Does the fact that you used to do this when you were younger automatically mean its ok? We've all done our fair share of things as a teenager I'm sure we dont anymore.

I would also like to point out that the onus of what is "creepy" is not decided by one side of the fence. A medium such as AOL back in the days advocated to that exact method of meeting strangers. Some people didn't use AOL that way. The same applies for Facebook, Myspace, etc.

tr;dr - If I feel creeped out that JohnDoe2 keeps messaging me about concerts about my favorite band regardless of if I have NSYNC pictures all over my public profile, its still creepy.
The issue with a lot of people isnt that their info is unknowingly public, its that someone is has sought you out and knows some things about you and you're wondering from where and what else does this person know.

This is the first thing that came to mind.

Guys, really? Stop being so anti-social and awkward. Its a safe bet to assume there are women in a bar/library/Starbucks. A line you can come up with on the spot such as 'I like those shoes/hairdo/etc' will get you a lot further than saying you were also at locations X, Y, and Z as she was. From someone you've never met, that comes off of creepy, regardless if he/she posts it on myspace/fb/G+.

^Story of my life, heh.

I go to AC with my roommate maybe 3-4 times a year, along with 1-2 vegas trips. We can easily take in +1000 a weekend playing poker. We then turn around and burn 800 or so playing everything else and having a big meal. Leaving up 200 is usually depends on how reckless we are on the craps table.

Agreed. Hacktivists should fall under the Cybercriminal subset instead of being on equal level.

+1 Insightful . . . .

Agreed. They say when I beggar is on the side of the road with a cup looking for change, quality of car is usually directly disproportional to the amount and frequency they give. Sad sad . . . .

Nah, this is precisely why the Autobots have stuck around.

Optimus Prime wouldnt allow that on his watch.

But how will be get rid of the munitions???

Perhaps . . . I have yet to see (or care, I have Sprint) how slow throttled users are slowed to.
I am not arguing its a terrible practice, just saying there is a legal difference, which I suspect why AT&T/T-Mobile can do this, between unlimited and throttling.