Google+ Anybody?

[Flavius]

I have been on Facebook for a while now, mostly to listen in on the chatter generated by my extended family overseas. When you do that regularly it almost feels like the very beginning of some sort of Borg collective.

Then I got a Google+ invite. The big differentiator is the circles feature as you probably now, which work when you think about it not unlike a forum in a bulletin board that can you can chose to subscribe to or not.

The major difference is that you can control who gets to see your messages.

What do you think about Google+?

 

[Saturn0660]

I've got it.. I dunno, i'm mixed on it.. I think once it goes live and more people get on it will be cool.. Right now it's a bit thin.

 

[Shatnertage]

I'm kind of using it--mostly accepting additions to other peoples' circles and responding to messages.

 

[JoeZhang]

The major difference is that you can't control who gets to see your messages.

Yeah you can - you can either send messages to be public, to a circle, to multiple circles to an single individual.

 

[Flavius]

Fixed my OP. Obviously, you can control that.

 

[JoeZhang]

You can actually do that on facebook but it's a bit more cumbersome.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

I wouldn't touch Facebook with a ten feet pole. Google+ is not Facebook. That says enough.

Facebook a privacy nightmare, the interest of the user is the last thing there, they even go through the trouble to ban users from exporting their own contacts, the users are the product there not the customers. And Facebook would sell them to anyone if it happens to be profitable.

I dislike Google, but they've never treated the users of any of their services as bad as Facebook does, and Google+ seems to be better than Facebook on all accounts.

I'm not a big fan of social networking though, and especially of the way social networking is done now, so I'm not certain I would use Google+ either. I believe that, in the very least, being a part of a social network shouldn't mean that you're limited to a single service of a single provider. Social networks... should be networked.

I will never ever use Facebook, and I have never ever done so. I have a Google+ account that I don't use right now but I might should I find a need to.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I like Google+ so far, though most of my friends aren't on it (yet.)

I still use Facebook, too, I just tend not to put anything overly personal on it. I'm always curious why people are so concerned about Facebook (or any site) violating their privacy. Facebook only knows what you tell it; no more, no less.

 

[Flavius]

http://www.cultofmac.com/what-apple-could-learn-from-google/104897

Google+ is the biggest culture-changing product to emerge from Google since Google Search itself. And Apple can learn from it.

Not sure if I can buy into the statement above, but the article is worth reading.

 

[Starbreaker]

I'm excited about finally getting to use it.... hopefully soon???

And I'm not worried about privacy... the damn thing can't read my mind.

 

[Shatnertage]

I'm excited about finally getting to use it.... hopefully soon???

And I'm not worried about privacy... the damn thing can't read my mind.

Do you need an invite? PM me your email address and I'll add you, if you want.

 

[SPCTRE]

http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=144355

 

[Kestra]

I love it so far. I don't even want to check Facebook anymore.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I wish that all of my Facebook friends could magically be transported to Google+. I definitely prefer it to Facebook, but pretty much nobody that I know is on it. I sent out some invites but people mostly ignored them!

 

[SPCTRE]

If anyone would like to add me on G+: gplus.to/SPCTRE

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

I love Google+ but only some of my friends are on it.

I think Google made a mistake having such a prominent open beta while they still work on various features.

People are signing up, seeing not much activity, and then leaving and going back to FB.

The thing is, social networks are not just about sharing. I'd wager most people probably only share once or two a day (status update, or posting stuff). But they spend more time on the site, READING.

Here's what they need to do and fast:

1) Google Reader integration. Can you believe there's no "Share with Circles" option on Google Reader... OR on various blogs around the internet?
2) Event management (or, integrate Google Calender).

In fact, let me take point 1 even further... they should actually MERGE Google Reader and Google+. You know how there's a list of your Circles under your Stream so you can isolate each Circle's stream? just have an option for Reader, and under it are subsets for all of your GReader RSS feeds.

On top of that, have deep links in and out of Gmail, be able to check your inbox right from there, be able to send an email right from the G+ screen... do it right and the user would never get bored, because there would always be stuff to do.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

I wouldn't touch Facebook with a ten feet pole. Google+ is not Facebook. That says enough.

Facebook a privacy nightmare, the interest of the user is the last thing there, they even go through the trouble to ban users from exporting their own contacts, the users are the product there not the customers. And Facebook would sell them to anyone if it happens to be profitable.

I dislike Google, but they've never treated the users of any of their services as bad as Facebook does, and Google+ seems to be better than Facebook on all accounts.

I'm not a big fan of social networking though, and especially of the way social networking is done now, so I'm not certain I would use Google+ either. I believe that, in the very least, being a part of a social network shouldn't mean that you're limited to a single service of a single provider. Social networks... should be networked.

I will never ever use Facebook, and I have never ever done so. I have a Google+ account that I don't use right now but I might should I find a need to.

G+'s big killer feature is "Circles" which basically lets you dictate who reads/sees what, and in a very easy/intuitive manner. It's much more privacy friendly imo.

 

[SiorX]

I wouldn't touch Facebook with a ten feet pole. Google+ is not Facebook. That says enough.

Facebook a privacy nightmare, the interest of the user is the last thing there, they even go through the trouble to ban users from exporting their own contacts, the users are the product there not the customers. And Facebook would sell them to anyone if it happens to be profitable.

I dislike Google, but they've never treated the users of any of their services as bad as Facebook does, and Google+ seems to be better than Facebook on all accounts.

I'm not a big fan of social networking though, and especially of the way social networking is done now, so I'm not certain I would use Google+ either. I believe that, in the very least, being a part of a social network shouldn't mean that you're limited to a single service of a single provider. Social networks... should be networked.

I will never ever use Facebook, and I have never ever done so. I have a Google+ account that I don't use right now but I might should I find a need to.

G+'s big killer feature is "Circles" which basically lets you dictate who reads/sees what, and in a very easy/intuitive manner. It's much more privacy friendly imo.

Nothin' new about that.

*Still on LiveJournal*