You Can Now Message Any Gmail User with Google+

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Here’s a mildly intriguing development: Google has been trying to set up Google+ and Gmail for some time, and now it looks like they’re forcing the marriage.

You will soon be able message anyone with a Gmail address by searching for their name and adding them to your Google+ “circle”. Since every Gmail user automatically has a Google+ account, one could theoretically use this new feature to get in touch with a media person whose email address isn’t public.

Not that we’d recommend that.

In order to protect itself from the scorn of every single person on the Internet, Google included an opt-out feature.

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