The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear
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The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear
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#2Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that.
It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.
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#3Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that. It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.
Try this: Add all your friends to a circle. Share a post with that circle. They will all get email notifications, which will gradually allow them in.
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#4Duh. Click around Google after being in Google+. Your full account loads into the interface, it's very apparent that Google+ is the "next version of Google". I assume that eventually the "+" moniker will be dropped and it will simply be "Share with your Google Circle", etc. They say they're integrating it into their products... I think it's the other way around.
Look at how Gmail contacts are treated in Google+, they're relegated to a stopgap. Look at the privacy settings for various fields in your profile - they default to sharing with your Gmail Contacts and once you chose a circle, you never have any context of Gmail Contacts anymore.
I love unification and data aggregation, especially with Google's Data Liberation efforts and the export they already have for taking your social data (potentially elsewhere).
Re: The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear
#5Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that. It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.
Looks like they are adding people in rounds. This morning I added some friends to circles trying to find out how to get them in then later in the morning all of them were added. I did the same thing again and it had appeared to stop working. Late this afternoon all of the additional people were added.
Basically add everyone you want to circles and make a post. They'll likely get through the invite within a day or less based on my current experience.
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#6Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that. It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.
I had the opposite reaction: At first only a couple of close friends were in my circles, and it felt like a true social site. Even though many of us are miles and miles apart, we were sharing, talking, hanging out and posting. All this without hundreds of relatives, coworkers, ex girlfriends silently watching us like some stalkers from the bushes.
It got even better once i realized that because of the way circles work, this kind of feeling might actually be preserved without much effort on my behalf.
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#7This article is dead on. I already have many google apps open all day and g+ will integrate with those nicely. A friend already exclaimed this morning that the google apps integration is what will kill FB (if that's even possible - myspace still has users). He then set out to move over those he actually cared about on FB to g+.
I especially like default use of groups and how it forces users to think about privacy from the get go. This is very different from my FB experience years ago and why I quit using FB.
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#8How about social search? Sparks has a huge potential, doesn't it? Facebook's greatest strength is its huge social graph. However, they still didn't create a really valuable social search.
Facebook can easily mimic google circles. But, who will be better at combining search and social to add some new value to both?
And hangouts? It could be quite hard for someone to make a good implementation, and still have a huge user base as google.
Anyway, circles seems like the easiest feature to implement for the likes of facebook. Good social search, and group video chat, this might be more difficult (facebooks classic chat isn't even working most of the time).
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#9Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that. It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.
Try this: Add all your friends to a circle. Share a post with that circle. They will all get email notifications, which will gradually allow them in.
Yep, this is how I invited most people in.
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#10Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that. It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.
You're one step ahead of me: I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I haven't gotten an invite yet!