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Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by mcosta »

yesimahuman wrote: post #23

> Since most of the people who are on Google+ so far are geeks, insiders, social media stars, journalists, and other people This is what I fear the most with +. I'm just as nerdy as the next guy, but I like to have some good un-clean fun with my friends, and Google+ comes off as conservative and parental. If Google stays too clean it won't draw the non-technical users I converse with on Facebook, and enjoy conversing…

Our experiences are opposite. My friends do not know the existence of the lists features. And because they have coworkers in their audience they just post political correct content. Read: farm & shit.

As their personal technical advisor, I am going to promote google+ for their freedom speech qualities. Ie. I made them migrate from hotmail to gmail. I predict an easy 20% migration and 50% dual usage.

As the op tells, I'm not going to convince my gossip, spammer, trash talk (i luv u guuuuuuys) friend, nor i'm going to try hard.

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by mjtokelly »

timmyd wrote: post #50

While I haven't used it yet - my biggest difficutly with the service seems to be that Circles actually act as "silos" and are mutually exclusive. That is, you cannot add "Robert Scoble" to different circles such as "friends" and "Tech feed" - you must choose EITHER "friends" OR "tech feed". This draws difficulties [and again I haven't used it so please someone clarify if I'm wrong] - if I have a friend who is both a…

Have no fear, Circles are not mutually exclusive. More like Venn diagrams, really.

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by StavrosK »

mjtokelly wrote: post #52
timmyd wrote: post #50

While I haven't used it yet - my biggest difficutly with the service seems to be that Circles actually act as "silos" and are mutually exclusive. That is, you cannot add "Robert Scoble" to different circles such as "friends" and "Tech feed" - you must choose EITHER "friends" OR "tech feed". This draws difficulties [and again I haven't used it so please someone clarify if I'm wrong] - if I have a friend who is both a…

Have no fear, Circles are not mutually exclusive. More like Venn diagrams, really.

They're actually just sets, they have nothing to do with Venn diagrams.

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by StavrosK »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #39

How do you bold and italicize on Facebook? I'm not aware of the ability. Personally I think having a Word interface for a textarea is pretty darn geeky. Using Markdown or some other markup language is better solution since those who don't know just won't use it.

Or they'll discover it by mistake, it's pretty intuitive.

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by kschrader »

mgkimsal wrote: post #34

g+ is going to be like a "grown up" facebook - without the farmville games and the like. It'll be the social network for people who've avoided facebook over perceived privacy slights. It'll be somewhat like a cross between facebook and a friendlier linkedin. It'll be a lot of things to a lot of people, but it won't be a 'facebook killer' any time soon. G+ is going to be expanding the social network user pie for a whi…

I think that you're fooling yourself if you don't think that G+ is going to have Farmville on it soon. It's too big of a draw and too big of a money maker for it to not have them.

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by L0op »

timmyd wrote: post #50

While I haven't used it yet - my biggest difficutly with the service seems to be that Circles actually act as "silos" and are mutually exclusive. That is, you cannot add "Robert Scoble" to different circles such as "friends" and "Tech feed" - you must choose EITHER "friends" OR "tech feed". This draws difficulties [and again I haven't used it so please someone clarify if I'm wrong] - if I have a friend who is both a…

I can confirm that my google+ allows the same person in multiple groups so you can customize broadcasts to multiple different types of groups or individual people.

The neatest thing is the "hang out" mode where you can video/audio/text chat with up to 10 people. This mode already has a neat youtube plugin so everyone can watch the video/movie and comment on it.

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by count »

StavrosK wrote: post #53
mjtokelly wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have no fear, Circles are not mutually exclusive. More like Venn diagrams, really.

They're actually just sets, they have nothing to do with Venn diagrams.

It would be pretty neat to be able to see your overlap between circles as a big venn diagram or something of the like. I keep finding out that I have handfuls of mutual friends with people I didn't know shared any of my friends (does that make sense?).

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by StavrosK »

count wrote: post #57
StavrosK wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're actually just sets, they have nothing to do with Venn diagrams.

It would be pretty neat to be able to see your overlap between circles as a big venn diagram or something of the like. I keep finding out that I have handfuls of mutual friends with people I didn't know shared any of my friends (does that make sense?).

All a Venn (well, Euler, really) diagram would do is show you friends common between circles. I agree that building the graph and finding mutual friends would be nice, though. I generally just go to Facebook and look at our mutual friends, and I'm sometimes surprised, but it would be nice to have a tool that did it automatically.

I wonder if the API has a "mutual friends" call, you could write that pretty easily if so.

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by mgkimsal »

kschrader wrote: post #55
mgkimsal wrote: post #34

g+ is going to be like a "grown up" facebook - without the farmville games and the like. It'll be the social network for people who've avoided facebook over perceived privacy slights. It'll be somewhat like a cross between facebook and a friendlier linkedin. It'll be a lot of things to a lot of people, but it won't be a 'facebook killer' any time soon. G+ is going to be expanding the social network user pie for a whi…

I think that you're fooling yourself if you don't think that G+ is going to have Farmville on it soon. It's too big of a draw and too big of a money maker for it to not have them.

I really dunno about that. I suspect there will be some, but they only flourish with network effects. If people on g+ don't play them now, they won't invite others to play, etc. And why would you leave facebook to play the same game in a different chrome setting?

If there's some g+-only games, I'd see that happening.

Re: Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by tomjen3 »

timmyd wrote: post #50

While I haven't used it yet - my biggest difficutly with the service seems to be that Circles actually act as "silos" and are mutually exclusive. That is, you cannot add "Robert Scoble" to different circles such as "friends" and "Tech feed" - you must choose EITHER "friends" OR "tech feed". This draws difficulties [and again I haven't used it so please someone clarify if I'm wrong] - if I have a friend who is both a…

You are wrong. I have added people to different circles, which is quite nice.

Also you don't know which circle you have been added to, so no worries about other peoples feelings....

Oh and if you want an invite, put your email in your gorram profile.

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