My son and his friends all seem to use Kik messenger.
I think people should read that rebuttal. G+ was always a tiger team, to build a platform that could be built upon. The platform is there. Now the team is being dispersed to work on the applications that rest on the platform.
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I really hope that is not true. Google+ is long overdue for itās own demise.
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If thatās the case, why axe Vic Gundotra during the reshuffle? Honest question.
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Facebook allows fine control over who sees what, and has had it since before Google+ launched. Itās just not as immediately easy to find and use as Googleās functionality. (Itās easier to find and use than it was, but still not great.)
This is one of those G+ fairy tales that gets tossed around but just isnāt true.
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Iād have used Google+ a little more (two percent of my social media use instead of the one percent I actually used it) if I hadnāt had a stalker āfriendā me, with Google+ lacking the ability to truly un-friend people.
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The real names policy is what did it for me too. I wanted to jump ship, but I couldnāt affort to risk losing my google account. Facebook could decide tomorrow my name on there is bogus and kick me off the network, and it would be merely annoying.
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Why would you want to un-friend anyone, Dave?
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I love how people are talking here about G+ in the past tense (āGoogle+ was a failureā) as if it no longer exists.
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Open the pod bay doors HAL. HAL? HAL?!
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Personally, I donāt get why people are still on Facebook, and I think weāre going to start seeing some pushback if they donāt quit with the radical changes. Someone, please, tell me how I sort by date on the mobile app. And someone tell Facebook that I go to their website to keep tabs on old friends, not news. The thing that will kill it, though, is demanding that all businesses (including small businesses) pay to play.
I foresee Facebook going away, and probably sooner than any of us realize. Hey, show of hands, who here uses MySpace?
Having said that, I donāt think G+ will be the next big thing. Sort of a pity, too; I really liked G+, at least compared to FB. Although Iāll note that I finally ran into an annoyance on Youtube; I saw this video on Bulgariaās Got Talent of a pole dancer. I replied to one of the more vulgar comments with an admonition and stated that, whether it was a sexually-charged display (and it was, tbh) it was an impressive display of gymnastics. It showed up on my G+ feed. My mother has me in her G+ circlesā¦
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I donāt see why G+ would fold. Itās a better social network than Facebook or Twitter, even if it is smaller. And I canāt imagine itās not valuable to Google; the network doesnāt represent who you know (like Facebook), but what youāre interesting in, and in much more detail than Facebook and Twitter are capable of. I have trouble seeing how thatās not of interest to Google.
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Some old inaccurate information in this thread.
āā¦ if I hadnāt had a stalker āfriendā me, with Google+ lacking the ability to truly un-friend people.ā
Not true. You can unfollow people and completely block them so they never see your posts and you never see theirs.
āThe real names policy is what did it for me too.ā
Google gave up on that policy months ago when they linked Youtube accounts to G+ accounts. They polled Youtube users and listened to the negative feedback on that policy.
Iāve never liked Facebook and never used it other then to camp my real name. I rarely use Twitter other then during real time major events (like the Japan tsunami), itās good for seeing real time feedback from around the world for events like that.
I never wanted G+ but have had a Youtube account since near Youtube going live, so I was forced to link to a G+ account. I have to say I like it. Their communities and circles work well. I donāt know how many active users G+ has and itās surely a fraction of FB, but the network has plenty of active users and is far from walking dead.
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Ever since Google+ started, people with no idea what theyāre talking about have been calling it a ghost town, simply because they are not using it. And now thereās totally unsourced piece of speculation from Techcrunch, and everybody assumes itās dead.
Yes, Google could pull the plug if they wanted, but itās unlikely theyāll want to. More reliable sources than Techcrunch claim that a lot of knowledge from the Google+ team is being spread throughout the company in order to make other Google services interact better with G+ (because the G+ on Android is just atrocious, and that Youtube integration was a terrible hack job).
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Thereās no unfriending on Google+ because thereās no friending. Thereās just following. But you can block people and you can choose who you share with.
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Hereās a rebuttal pointing out exactly that: http://mattcruikshank.blogspot.co.uk/2014_04_01_archive.html
Who says he was axed?
And thatās why G+ is so great. Itās like Facebook, but without all the idiots. And with a lot of very interesting people who I donāt have to know in order to follow them.
Not? Itās pretty great, actually. Where Facebook shows me all the crap and stupid jokes from friends and coworkers that I know in real life, Google+ gets me in contact with interesting people who share my interests, but who I never would have gotten to know without Google+.
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I guess I need to stop being active on Google + if itāll be like the end of Windows XP and refuse to work afterā¦something.
