Open to all... Unless you're using Google Apps like I do ಠ_ಠ
Google+ Opens to All
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#32Great! It's just a shame that all of my friends have died of old age waiting for the invite period to finish.
Seriously, what was the reasoning for this? It's not like Google don't have the infrastructure/capability to scale quickly.
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#33google plus is like the bing of social networks
I'm almost willing to be that more people are using Bing, relative to Bing's main competition. G+ has to get the buzz back, or this risks becoming Wave, Part 2. Edit: I deserve some flack for using the word "buzz", I know ;)
Or catch the wave, or risk becoming Buzz Part 2.
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#34Too little, too late. Facebook already aped all of their innovations.
Yeah, with a circles implementation that absolutely sucks.
When my co-worker placed me in his "work" circle on Facebook I automatically received a request to verify that I indeed do work at "Company X" with "John Smith", when I clicked that this was correct it automatically added it to my profile.
I keep my profile on Facebook clean. I don't have many page "likes" nor do I have my full employment history on there, I don't want it there either, I've got LinkedIn for that, or my personal portfolio site.
Why did Facebook consider it a good idea to automatically send me notifications when my co-worker categorises what "circles" I should be in?
This is not limited to just work, if you add someone to your family "circle" they get asked what relationship they have to you (parent, sibling, stuff like that).
As a friend of a friend said:
"So if I add someone to my douche bag does it ask them to confirm they are a douche bag? Or does it just scan their photo for aeropostale and their comments for their use of, "bro"."
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#35Time to see whether it will fly or the slowdown was a sign of trouble.
I see too many bumps, particularly the Nymwars / privacy issues. My suspicion is that the calculus was to allow more people in as a bid to keep momentum, rather than fix the problems first.
The user experience is going to (or at least should) change very significantly to fix numerous bugs. With more (and less sophisticated) users on board, this will be more problematic.
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#36Looks like you still need to be "over a certain age"... :(
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#37Too late, guys. Facebook is already copying the features that make G+ cool/useful (circles, etc), and the one big, inherent advantage you had in your favor (Your user base, e.g every Google account) you alienated by keeping it "invite only" for too long. Either open it to everyone sooner, or hold off on this prolonged "invite period" so you don't risk confusing / alienating people that want to try G+ but can't. G+ fe…
For all their other faults, Google at least tries to protect privacy and keeps after data export too. Those are two key attributes that are important to me.
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#38Too late, guys. Facebook is already copying the features that make G+ cool/useful (circles, etc), and the one big, inherent advantage you had in your favor (Your user base, e.g every Google account) you alienated by keeping it "invite only" for too long. Either open it to everyone sooner, or hold off on this prolonged "invite period" so you don't risk confusing / alienating people that want to try G+ but can't. G+ fe…
Agreed. I wouldn't use Google+, I would also recommend to everyone I know that they never use Google+. The implications of loosing my gmail account over a trivial name change are just too seemingly random and risky. It's just not worth it.
Facebook won by default. Google+ had a chance, it really could have succeeded, but something went terribly wrong with it's management. Piss poor execution and hints that Google is really struggling to find good talent to run it's new enterprises.
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#39Why is there even a set number of invites left for each G+ user? I see that I still have 94 Gmail invites even, and in both cases, I'm not seeing the point.
So that it can't be used as a spam vector: Gmail trusts all mail that comes from Google.
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#40Looks like you still need to be "over a certain age"... :(
That's true of Facebook, too. Complain to your legislators, it's because COPA is so impractical that nobody bothers to attempt to comply with the measures necessary to allow kids on a social media site.