Marv
I do not have the level of IT skills of the other members of this group, so do not fully follow the details. Most of my group members will already have gmail accounts, and use Facebook groups. Many, like me, do not appreciate receiving a flood of extraneous material along with wanted group communication, and will be receptive to change. For me, that is the real purpose of the group, I realise that little data is private. Most people do not much care about privacy, but a few do, and I am promoting this as a group free of tracking, status reports, friend requests, adverts and general intrusion. From what you say, I am reasonably reassured that signing in via Facebook or Google will not result in this happening on the Groups.io account. If it happens on their Facebook accounts, then they already do not care about privacy, and it can justifiably blame it on Facebook. I want to assure people without Facebook accounts that no Facebook stuff will appear as a result of sign-ins via Facebook/Google unless it is actually posted by the people signing in.
For example, I would be very unhappy about Google using gathered email addresses to send messages to the group, but I am not too bothered about them knowing the addresses. Google has not done this with other groups in the past, even Google groups.?
When promoting the group I might miss out the bit about signing in via Facebook and waffle about "integration" instead. You have reassured me that I am being honest when I say "no adverts, no tracking, no friend requests" on the Groups.io group.
Thank you for these very full replies
John Clube
