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New Google+ is beautiful?

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Re: New Google+ is beautiful?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't take a sample size of one and extrapolate to everyone.

I did no such thing. I said mine is. Don't put words in my mouth, please.

Sorry if I misunderstood, but I made a statement about the large body of users and you replied with a personal anecdote. I realize there are exceptions, but my point (in response to the parent comment) was that clearly most users aren't bothered by a non-chronological presentation. Even Twitter seems to be moving away from that.

Re: New Google+ is beautiful?

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Seems to be operating under the assumption that text = photos for the user. My observations of social networks has definitely not borne that out. People love photos. Due to the demographics of Google+, What's Hot is skew toward tech news. But I am pretty sure the intention of Google+ is not to provide news, but to appeal to the general public. General public loves pictures.

More so that our visual sense is extremely well developed. Human visual recognition happens instantly with little effort vs reading text that requires extra effort and focus. Therefore it reasons to push in that direction as a way to present a lot of information on the screen. It reminds me of how billboards work.
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