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Misuse of sharing the wave “Invite others to Google Wave”

You must be a user of Google Wave to get use of this post. Yes! you are not under disadvantage of this issue if you are not a Google Wave user. And this is for new users and the older ones as well.

So here we go. You must be familier with a wave called “Invite others to Google Wave” if you have been with Google Wave for a couple of weeks. Or by any way if this wave is added in your account. see below

Figure 1: Waves private to me only

Do not share this wave (red marked wave in above image) with othe GWave users as this is your private wave. And this wave is only for you to invite others who ever you like. When you share this wave to any other GWave user then he/she automatically gets access to view or use this wave as normally happens with other waves. However sharing any wave to other GWave users is your own choice and it normally doesn’t harm to your account but sharring the mentioned wave above with other GWave users can be a loss for you. because the person, you share this wave with, will have the full access of this wave and can use it to invite his/her fellows and you loose your invites.

Exactly to some of you, this notice might be annoying if you think that it was not that important to publish as this fact is very good to be known by any one. And no one will share this wave any way. If you think so then you are like me. I was having the similar thought before I noticed some thing……

So I considered to post this information here as I just have noticed some people(some of my contacts ofcourse) on Google Wave, mistakenly or by chance or may be for testing purposes, have added me in their private wave “Invite others to Google Wave” and I can use all the invites they have in that wave to send the invites to my relatives or friends.

Figure 2: Waves private to me only

Green marked wave in above image is the one private to me only. And you can see another same wave with red mark also with another red marked contact in it on left who shared this wave to me. Oh.. now it looks important to be known….. yehh…..? not yet?

Ok beyond this the most stupid thing I have noticed that some people have made that wave “public” and everyone can access that wave and as well can use these invites to send through out. do not believe me? see below

Figure 3: Public Waves

Above screenshot is showing some of the public waves you can explore them by typing “with:public” in search box. And see what I have marked in these public waves. The same “Invite others to Google Wave”. Yes I could not use any of the invite in that wave because they had all been vanished by some other users. Ofcourse they were supposed to be if they goes public.

So finally, the purpose of this post was just to make users aware of some unknown facts. I hope now you have known what you have to do with that wave and what have not to do with that.

I hope this post might be helpfull for many.

Please leave your comments. They really matter to me :)

Khurram Ali

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