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Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by micampe » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 6:10 PM UTC

joebadmo wrote: post #2

My wife has always been an intermittent Facebook user, because she was never sure how private anything was, and the periodic UI changes confused her. She's perfectly intelligent and reasonably technically savvy, but not a huge tech nerd, and not willing to invest time into figuring out all the nuances of FB. So I was really surprised when, after trying Google+ for a few days, she said, "I think this is really going t…

Will user A see my post? http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RIL_CvjOmVY/ThQKTNckBYI/AA...

Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by kelnos » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 6:25 PM UTC

kosei wrote: post #6

Is it just me, or is this writer ALL OVER THE PLACE? Personally I like Google+ because it combines some of the things I enjoy most about Twitter (being able to follow/listen to people post things publicly) and my varied social networks (being able to segment users -- "put them in a hole" -- and speak to each individually as opposed to having to blast to the entire world every time). The ultimate test, however, is how…

Is it just me, or is this writer ALL OVER THE PLACE?

That's kinda the point. It's comedy.

Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by code_duck » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 6:31 PM UTC

jarin wrote: post #5

Most of my conversations with "norms": "Hey, want a Google+ invite?" "What's that?" "It's like Facebook, but without Farmville." "Sweet, send it over!"

I see the inverse - not the FB in G+, rather the Google in G+. Something like "all of Google's sharing sites are connected now, so it's great way to talk to people and share photos".

Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by joejohnson » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 6:35 PM UTC

bproper wrote: post #3

"Like I could have a friend hole and an acquaintance hole and a K-hole. And they give you a list of friends and you stuff them in the hole, like Silence of the Lambs, except you are sending them images and text messages and hanging out with them on video chats." Totally family friendly ;)

I didn't understand why he said "K-hole". This kind of K-hole? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-hole

Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by xbryanx » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 6:35 PM UTC

jarin wrote: post #5

Most of my conversations with "norms": "Hey, want a Google+ invite?" "What's that?" "It's like Facebook, but without Farmville." "Sweet, send it over!"

"It's like Facebook, but the font is bigger."

Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by joejohnson » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 6:36 PM UTC

The "holes" metaphor doesn't really work; something can't be in more than one hole. Holes are also not an easier abstraction to understand than groups or sets. I think this article does a poor job explaining Google+.

Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by KeyBoardG » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 6:49 PM UTC

For me using tweetdeck with a column per twitter group gives me everything that I use in Google+.

Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by icarus_drowning » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 6:53 PM UTC

joebadmo wrote: post #2

My wife has always been an intermittent Facebook user, because she was never sure how private anything was, and the periodic UI changes confused her. She's perfectly intelligent and reasonably technically savvy, but not a huge tech nerd, and not willing to invest time into figuring out all the nuances of FB. So I was really surprised when, after trying Google+ for a few days, she said, "I think this is really going t…

My wife and her friends (who amazingly all accepted her G+ invites and immediately started the service) like it much more than Facebook. My wife's an RN, and reasonably technically savvy, but not someone I'd call a "geek". I asked her why she liked it more and she said two things that I thought were interesting:

1) "Well, I like Google better anyway. So I'd rather use their service."

2) "It just feels better than facebook to me."

Really surprised me, considering that we're going to replace her Android phone that she's only been using for 6 months or so because she hates it so much and because she really likes to use facebook.

I'm not sure if her experience is going to be the norm, but it seems to bode well for Google.

Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by ChuckMcM » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 7:07 PM UTC

jarin wrote: post #5

Most of my conversations with "norms": "Hey, want a Google+ invite?" "What's that?" "It's like Facebook, but without Farmville." "Sweet, send it over!"

You should have said "... but without Farmville, yet." since we all know Zynga has a team clicking 'reload' 24/7 on the Google search "Google+ Application API" :-)

Re: Explaining Google+ To The Norms

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Post by ChuckMcM » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 7:09 PM UTC

micampe wrote: post #11

joebadmo wrote: post #2

My wife has always been an intermittent Facebook user, because she was never sure how private anything was, and the periodic UI changes confused her. She's perfectly intelligent and reasonably technically savvy, but not a huge tech nerd, and not willing to invest time into figuring out all the nuances of FB. So I was really surprised when, after trying Google+ for a few days, she said, "I think this is really going t…

Will user A see my post? http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RIL_CvjOmVY/ThQKTNckBYI/AA...

This has been one of the interesting aspects of it. You can direct message someone by sharing it only with them.

Also if you send something to one circle and then add someone to that circle later, they get to see everything sent to that circle.