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Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by cronz »

_uhtu wrote: post #6

Google+ had terrible marketing and release, but it had some decent ideas that I wish other networks had carried over. The idea of "circles", where you had a circle for "acquaintances" "friends", "family" would be great on, say, Facebook, as it would allow me to filter down my feed to just the people I really care about but still have a connection to more distance acquaintances. Currently on Facebook the news feed is…

The idea of circles sounds fantastic on paper but it's simply too much work for the common user.

For most of the posts users would make, users would probably spend more time thinking about which circles to enable than actually writing the post. It's a headache and it leads to a poor experience, it feels like a hurdle, something you must do; it makes posting less natural.

Facebook on the other hand offers the same functionality but it's "buried" so you can use it at your convenience.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by Ajedi32 »

> Users can grant access to their Profile data, and the public Profile information of their friends, to Google+ apps, via the API.

Interesting, wasn't this basically the same problem that Facebook had with Cambridge Analytica?

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by interlocutor »

_uhtu wrote: post #6

Google+ had terrible marketing and release, but it had some decent ideas that I wish other networks had carried over. The idea of "circles", where you had a circle for "acquaintances" "friends", "family" would be great on, say, Facebook, as it would allow me to filter down my feed to just the people I really care about but still have a connection to more distance acquaintances. Currently on Facebook the news feed is…

>> Given hundreds of acquaintances, this is a pain, and made me give up on Facebook altogether.

Sounds like you need https://circles.app

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by robotrout »

pc86 wrote: post #40
ben174 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that was by design. Trying to sweep it under the covers to avoid outrage. I share that article with friends and they're likely to read the first half of the headline and not bother reading it.

Serious question, is anybody going to be outraged by sunsetting G+?

Not me. But it reinforces my commitment to never get attached to any Google service.

The new GMail is also helping me with that.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by evgen »

_uhtu wrote: post #6

Google+ had terrible marketing and release, but it had some decent ideas that I wish other networks had carried over. The idea of "circles", where you had a circle for "acquaintances" "friends", "family" would be great on, say, Facebook, as it would allow me to filter down my feed to just the people I really care about but still have a connection to more distance acquaintances. Currently on Facebook the news feed is…

There is no way Facebook would ever implement something like this. The whole point of the Facebook feed tinkering is to force you to wade through a river of shit to find the nuggets you are interested in. The feed algorithm is all about making that river just slightly short of unbearable, because the river is where they stuff all the ads. If they provided you with useful filters it would make the revenue opportunities more visible.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by karpodiem »

glenrivard wrote: post #26
karpodiem wrote: post #7

What a poorly managed company.

Poorly managed? They have now grown over 20% the last ten quarters and now over 26% the last two. Since the beginning never declined for a quarter YoY. Even though the great recession. That is pretty hard to do.

How many FTEs do they have running G+? There are a bunch of OSS people that use it because Facebook sucks and Twitter is toxic.

The good will from the OSS community in maintaining G+ can be easily paid for in the 250% growth you referenced. And please, save me from the 'we need to double down and focus on products that matter' - no, you need to maintain some credibility for your product ownership.

That's why I don't spend a single dollar with GCE.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by Ajedi32 »

Chunkyated wrote: post #23

oh no. My family have used G+ to share stuff. I don't want to have my mother-in-law on facebook, what else can we use? I really like the idea of circles, some stuff I would share only with my close family, other stuff would be shared with wider family and friends, etc.

Facebook has that feature now too, it's called "friend lists". Unfortunately it's a much less prominent feature and harder to use.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by jonknee »

mindcrime wrote: post #20

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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