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Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by joejohnson »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #68
201studio wrote: post #47

I think this has huge potential. The problem with Facebook, at least for me, is that I have a ton of friends that post pointless shit. Now with features like Circles I can put my REAL friends in one circle, family in another, and all the noise and acquaintances(networking etc.) in a spam filter circle. This is going to be awesome.

From the demo you have to choose one and only one circle for each person. To me this is a huge problem. A lot of people hang out with some coworkers off-hours and they should be able to put these people into more than 1 bucket.

This is only a limitation in the demo. In the actual product, you can place friends in multiple cirlces.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by RobAtticus »

frisco wrote: post #28
guywithabike wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. Facebook opened it up to entire colleges at a time. So once you were able to get on, most of your friends were able to, too.

I bet those inside Google+ at this early stage can invite others in as well.

Currently those inside + at the moment cannot invite others. It will probably change soon, but I think the initial rollouts are still going on, so for the time being I cannot invite others.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by nrbafna »

kristiandupont wrote: post #96

This is exciting and all -- and much as I would love to see a serious competitor to Facebook, I still don't know how I would convince any of my non-techie friends that they should switch to this. Circles? Actually I think that many people like the idea of their posts are being read by as many people as possible and not just the ones with similar interests. Although it looks like a big discussion group, the news feed…

on a side note, the mobile app is live in android market. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app...

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Post by daralthus »

yid wrote: post #6
ernestipark wrote: post #4

The hangouts feature seems like a big win to me. Group video chats in the browser from someone like Google can really change things.

I disagree. Social networking, unlike skype or email, requires low cognitive load--you come to hang out on your own terms. While group video chat is a convenient feature when you need it, it's not going to fundamentally change the game.

I disagree. You go to a hang out when you feel about socializing.

You never get bored in a group chat, and the youtube integration just makes it much better. Just look at turntable.fm

I miss this kind of chatting from facebook so much. (ok there is something like this with groups. I read somewhere that is the second popular on the site, right after photo sharing.)

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Post by nextparadigms »

kristiandupont wrote: post #96

This is exciting and all -- and much as I would love to see a serious competitor to Facebook, I still don't know how I would convince any of my non-techie friends that they should switch to this. Circles? Actually I think that many people like the idea of their posts are being read by as many people as possible and not just the ones with similar interests. Although it looks like a big discussion group, the news feed…

"Circles? Actually I think that many people like the idea of their posts are being read by as many people as possible and not just the ones with similar interests."

I totally disagree with that. Facebook sorely lacks such a feature, and the lack of it has led to "spammy" messages from so called "friends" you barely even know, or care about in your list.

Google+ seems to solve a lot of issues with Facebook. And I think even non-techies can be relatively easy convinced to use it once they see how it works. Basically, Google+ looks like a huge leap over Facebook because of all those neat products tied together. People will switch from anything as long as there is a big leap in benefits, and I think Google+ offers that.

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kristiandupont wrote: post #96

This is exciting and all -- and much as I would love to see a serious competitor to Facebook, I still don't know how I would convince any of my non-techie friends that they should switch to this. Circles? Actually I think that many people like the idea of their posts are being read by as many people as possible and not just the ones with similar interests. Although it looks like a big discussion group, the news feed…

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