[57north-discuss] Twitter/facebook/g+ links

[Tom Jones]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 04:47:17PM +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> The 57N site currently has  a scary red popup on the google+ link. 
> 
> This picks on G+ and not twitter or facebook because in EFFs 2013 "Who
> has your back?"scorecard thing[1] google+ didn't get a full set of
> stars. But this is out of date. All three got a full set of stars in the
> 2014 report[2], and then EFF changed what the stars are for this year
> and none of the three get a full set anymore[3]. 
> 
> I don't like the scary popup, and think the EFF scorecards over simplify
> a complex issue (though they can be useful for starting a discussion, I
> can't see a good way to have that discussion with people following links
> on our site). I'd like to remove the popup from the G+ link but thought
> I'd best ask before just doing it...

If you were scared then the popups did their job.

I think we should just remove the facebook and g+ links, we don't manage those accounts at all.

- [tj]