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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 mcintyre1994 »

ryanwaggoner wrote: post #383
mindgam3 wrote: post #373

RIP. Like so many of Google’s high profile efforts (anyone remember Wave? Glass, etc), a bunch of good ideas and great tech brought down by an utter failure to understand the human element/social psychology angle. Google+ was dead in the water from day one. You don’t beat Facebook at social by building a slightly different product with some cool ideas like Circles. Going for feature parity was a mistake. Instead they…

Why do you need to beat Facebook at social at all? Just focus on what you’re good at, it’s not like Facebook is going to suddenly dominate search.

Facebook is the only other company that has meaningful market share in online ads - the stats are always something like "Google + Facebook have 90-something %". Had Google managed to build a product that replaced Facebook, maybe they'd have that 90+% to themselves.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by giancarlostoro »

lowlevel wrote: post #638
gcatalfamo wrote: post #629

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Yes but it is so hidden and “ancient” that I would be surprised if more than 1% of users actively uses it.

I’ve given up trying to find anything on facebook... I just post a picture once in a while and talk to whoever comments on it.

I can't even use Facebook without it freezing anymore. I'm using containers and locking down on tracking (no umatrix or noscript though) and Facebook literally craps itself everytime I have it open, helps keep me off of it. It must be my exact setup cause I do the same setup on every laptop / workstation and it slows to a crawl, though mobile.facebook.com works just fine... oddly enough. And I know if I use a vanilla browser it works just fine...

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by obituary_latte »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #692
lowlevel wrote: post #638

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I’ve given up trying to find anything on facebook... I just post a picture once in a while and talk to whoever comments on it.

I can't even use Facebook without it freezing anymore. I'm using containers and locking down on tracking (no umatrix or noscript though) and Facebook literally craps itself everytime I have it open, helps keep me off of it. It must be my exact setup cause I do the same setup on every laptop / workstation and it slows to a crawl, though mobile.facebook.com works just fine... oddly enough. And I know if I use a vanilla…

Any specific reason “no umatrix”?

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by hysan »

I wonder if we'll get the + operator back in search now. Google broke a lot of things across their ecosystem with the release of Google+. I feel that the effect on search kickstarted the trend of taking away search control from the user and isolating us in bubbles (circles).

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by chakalakasp »

eftpotrm wrote: post #688
mliker wrote: post #626

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"There is no way Facebook would ever implement something like this." Except they did in 2011 in response to Google+ by adding Friend Lists, which you can use to filter your News Feed down to stories and news items from just friends in certain lists curated by you. This is still in existence today in 2018.

That's only half the feature, though. The killer feature with circles is being able to post different things to different audiences IMHO, which Facebook can't do without different accounts.

Again, Friends Lists. You can most certainly post to only certain groups of people.

Though let’s be honest here - anything you post on Facebook (or any other social media) you should assume is public, regardless of privacy controls.

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

izzydata wrote: post #356
sangnoir wrote: post #272

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> I'd like to think that's not true, but it wouldn't be the first time such a technique has been used, apparently successfully. It's also why Twitter wants to 'curate' your timeline, instead of simply displaying tweets from people you follow in temporal order.

I never realized Twitter curated timeslines because I don't follow enough people for it to cut anything out. It is effectively a chronological order of posts by people I follow.

My big problem with Twitter's timeline is showing me things that people I follow have liked. In every case, those posts are political and divisive, i.e., the "red meat" of social media. They're just throwing those into my feed to get a reaction from me, hoping that I'll "engage" with whatever stupid topic comes up, as though Twitter were a good place for having a discussion about anything.

I've turned off the "show best tweets first" option, and I stick with using Tweetbot. But, like most people seem to indicate here, about Facebook (which I don't use at all), my continued use hangs by a thread. It wouldn't take much for me to cancel my account. Again.

Re: Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

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Post by pc86 »

ihuman wrote: post #114
pc86 wrote: post #100

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I really like Inbox and am dreading the day that inevitably gets canned.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Inbox is getting shut down https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17848500/google-inbox-shu...

Well at least when I get forced over in March it will be a good incentive to unsubscribe from all the newsletters I don't want :)
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