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Even now, I can't figure out how to send someone a friend request. All I see is a Subscribe button when I visit someone's profile.
I just spent 20 mins searching for this and on the Android app at least I can't figure it out either!
after that you can click on [friends] and youll get a [friend me] url
LOL, one more example of why one should never depend on anything from Google. developer adoption Gee, I wonder why? Maybe because they never released a usable write API and were basically just a little less developer-hostile than Twitter? G+ had a lot of potential, had Google chosen to truly embrace Open Standards, federation, and usable API's. As it is, they shot themselves in the foot by creating JAWG (Just Another…
> never depend on anything from Google They're shutting it down precisely because no one was depending on it. How would anyone depend on a social network without any users?
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I mean you really can't argue that Google's attempts to move away from relying on ad revenue for most of its earnings have been successful
Yes but not following how that relates to "poorly managed"? I mean they are in all of history the fastest to a $100B market cap and since started in 1998 it was right at the .com bust. Then the fastest to $200B. Does that not take good management?
That immediately stopped me posted anything. It's almost write-once, read never sort of medium. It's too bad, there were a few good ideas and so on, and I had a bit of traction of a few good 'circles' but I'm pretty sure that like me, everyone else stopped.
Now, I have to figure out a way of re-importing all that content to something else, probably homebrewed this time.
IN FACT I've just checked, and G+ seems to have forgotten every single post I've made, but one. https://plus.google.com/+MichelPollet
EDIT: Now the posts are back. I must have been archived on CDs or something ;-)
If I saw something I thought a friend would enjoy or made me think of them, I'd post it on their wall. This is drastically different than sending a message or e-mailing in that my friend's friends will also see it.
In Google+ (at least when I tried it), there was no way to perform this action. So I never used it again.
This is Vic Gundotra's legacy and perhaps the first major strategic decision Larry Page made in the post-Eric Schmidt era and it was the design and launch of Google+ and (IMHO) it marked a turning point in the company's culture. Internal resistance to aspects of G+ was enormous. People outside the company get this idea that Google acts as some kind of singleminded (possibly nefarious) entity when "herding cats" is so…
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Erm, Facebook did implement something like this. Shortly after Google+ came out. You can still assign friends to different groups.
Alas, the concept was never fleshed out and is all but buried and featureless.
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Alas, the concept was never fleshed out and is all but buried and featureless.
It's not heavily promoted but it is there. You can view feeds of your Facebook friend lists, just like Google+. Bookmark those feeds and you are good to go.