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Re: Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?

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Post by powerje » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 6:17 AM UTC

waterlesscloud wrote: post #130

bmelton wrote: post #102

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And that is exactly why, at least on Android phones, the out of box Plus configuration is to automatically upload all pictures that are taken on a phone.

You've got to have misstated that. That would be a complete and total disaster of enough scale to completely kill Plus.

Yes he has misstated this.

When you load G+ on Android it asks whether you want your photos uploaded by default into a private album. It isn't the default by any means - the default is to ask the user what they want to do!

It works really well too. I took a few pictures with my device and not even thinking about it got on my computer to upload them, before realizing I had told my phone to upload automatically. Very easy experience to share my photos and videos this way.

Re: Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?

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Post by danssig » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 9:09 AM UTC

jimbokun wrote: post #31

goodside wrote: post #19

This headline is sensationalistic beyond the pale of respectable journalism, and certainly beyond that of HN. The article does nothing to justify the title. Speculating ways in which Twitter might eventually lose to a new competitor does not license you say they've already been "mortally wounded". To the extent that anyone reading this has the authority to change headlines (I only know for sure that pg does), could y…

The headline's awful, and the tone of the article sensationalistic, but I thought it made some good points. If the description of Google+ is accurate (don't have an invite, haven't really tried to get one), Google may have found a solution for Facebook spam. I tried to use my Facebook account for awhile, but it quickly became a wall of Farmville updates. I know there are settings I could use to get rid of those, but…

>I know there are settings I could use to get rid of those, but investigating it seemed too much work to bother.

Too much work to bother? I don't think you'll make it anywhere then. All you had to do was mouse over one of the updates and click the X. It would then ask you what you were killing, Farmville or the person who sent it. You say Farmville. Finished. No more Farmville updates ever again.

Re: Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?

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Post by winsbe01 » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 2:46 PM UTC

zwily wrote: post #123

winsbe01 wrote: post #67

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exactly. i think more people would use the lists if it were a more prominent feature. with G+, they are center stage, so people can easily interface with them.

They used to be more prominent. They were "hidden" only after it turned out that people didn't like classifying their friends. Either they just did it wrong, or Google will discover the same thing with Circles. (I already find myself pretty much just putting everyone in one of two circles now.)

interesting, I don't remember them ever being very prominent. maybe that's just me not paying attention to the software I use :)

I'm not sure if Google will experience the same thing with Circles. I think what will happen (enter speculative mode) is there will be a large group that LOVES classifying their friends like this, and they will stick with G+. Another large group will HATE it, find it extremely annoying/pointless (possibly because of only using one or two circles, like you mentioned), and maybe stick with FB. Either way, people will most likely end up with an account on both, using one actively and one passively.

Re: Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?

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Post by winsbe01 » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 2:50 PM UTC

digamber_kamat wrote: post #105

Facebook lists seem to be equivalent of Circles. Why should I be using Google+ except that it is from Google ?

it's not that you "should" use one over the other, but evaluate both to see which works better for you. people are excited about G+ because it's new, it's different (yes, lists and circles are basically the same, but their importance to the platform is different), and it's got google behind it, which seems to make everyone get excited.

i personally like it, and enjoy the list/circle-centric nature of it, but if none of my friends are active on it, there's no reason why I "should" use it over FB.

Re: Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?

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Post by AppSec » Fri, Jul 08, 2011, 6:13 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #37

boredguy8 wrote: post #24

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I actually like Facebook's privacy better. Except for chat's online/offline status, it seems to follow a 'most restrictive permission applies" policy, which is nice. Using Google's example: If I have a biking group and a work group, there's probably someone in the intersection of those two groups. I might want to share something with my biking group but not share it with my work group. There's not a mechanism to do t…

I don't get it, if they are in your biking group, why would you want to not share something with them just because they happen to be in the work group too?

There's even a simpler scenario then that.

I have a set of close friends that I share just about everything with. It's a somewhat large size. Some of them I am in fantasy sports leagues with, some of them are techie types, some of them are fans of the same sports teams I am. I don't necessarily want to flood the stream of people that I know aren't interested.

There's many cases where individual circles of friends have a intersections or just don't fully mesh. It'll be interesting to see how this proceeds. UI/UX is going to dictate how successful circles are.