Google+

Adelante · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:24 am

Quote:

Elgan: How Google+ ends social networking fatigue

Google+ isn't just another social network. It's the one place to consolidate all of your social activity. ...

By not labeling Google+ as a "social network," Google has a point. Google+ is no more a social network than it is any number of other online communications media. Google+ is also an email service, blogging platform, micro-blogging site, news feed, video conferencing system, chat service, location-based social network and more. So why call it a "social network"?

Here's a better question: Why overwhelm yourself with a dozen services when you can consolidate them all into one? For most people, Google+ can replace every single medium of online communication. The benefit is clear: One site, one log-in, one feed is better than many for ending social networking fatigue.

Here's my list of all the social services that Google+ can replace. I'll tell you what you can replace, what you need to know about replacing other media and why you should replace them all.

Foggy · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:08 pm

I've been on the waiting list, but they won't let me in yet.

'Course, I thought I scored when I got into Google Wave ...

listeme · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:11 pm

Foggy wrote:

I've been on the waiting list, but they won't let me in yet.

'Course, I thought I scored when I got into Google Wave ...

I'm in ... but I dunno what to do with it yet. I'm never an early adopter, and this is why.

Mikedunford · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:31 pm

listeme wrote:

Foggy wrote:

I've been on the waiting list, but they won't let me in yet.

'Course, I thought I scored when I got into Google Wave ...

I'm in ... but I dunno what to do with it yet. I'm never an early adopter, and this is why.

I'd love to get in, but then I really wanted in to Google Wave, too.

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:36 pm

Will Google make special allowances for old pensioners?

Mikedunford · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:43 pm

Sterngard Friegen wrote:

Will Google make special allowances for old pensioners?

You already got a cuneiform keyboard with and a printer that outputs clay tablets. What more did you want?

Edit: ETA: typo fix

Whatever4 · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:39 pm

Mikedunford wrote:

Sterngard Friegen wrote:

Will Google make special allowances for old pensioners?

You already got a cuneiform keyboard with and a printer that outputs clay tablets. What more did you want?

Edit: ETA: typo fix

Stern's computer:

Mikedunford · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:24 pm

Just got in. Anyone else there already?

Bob Ross · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:26 pm

Mikedunford wrote:

Just got in. Anyone else there already?

Any chance I can get an invite?

A Legal Lohengrin · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2010 9:56 pm **Posts:** 9353

Mikedunford wrote:

Just got in. Anyone else there already?

Anyone want an invite? PM me with a gmail address. I don't know how many I have, though.

Mikedunford · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:35 pm

Bob Ross wrote:

Mikedunford wrote:

Just got in. Anyone else there already?

Any chance I can get an invite?

Don't know if I have any yet, but PM me a gmail address and I'll try.

Highlands · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:59 am

Curious Blue · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 1:07 am

I'm in. You can pm me if you want an invite, but i'm not quite sure of the procedure in terms of timing. My d. told me she had invited me several days ago, but i only saw the invite message today, and it was coming from people other than my daughter, at a different email address from the one she would use. So i'm confuzzled by the whole process, as well as a little mixed up about the point of it all.

Edit: If you pm me for an invite, I need your EMAIL. Also, Gmail asks me to enter your name, though I don't think they care or have anyway of knowing whether or not it is a real name, nick name, or fogbow name. But once you are in, you will probably want to edit your profile with your real name, and I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to see it, since adding a fogbower means putting that person in one of my 'circles'.

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:47 pm

Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns

Quote:

Facebook king values his own privacy, though not always others'
By Dave Neal
Wed Jul 13 2011, 11:30

POSSIBLE SOCIAL NETWORK FOUNDER Mark Zuckerberg has lost his lofty position as the most popular Google+ user and appears to have dropped out of the rankings altogether.

Zuckerberg was top of the Google+ ratings as late as Tuesday evening, and when we last looked had some 21,213 followers and 39 friends. Today he is nowhere to be seen and has been replaced by Robert Scoble, the man who confirmed to us all that this Zuckerberg was the real Zuckerberg.

"Name drop moment. Zuckerberg just texted me back. Says 'Why are people so surprised that I'd have a Google account?'," said the Scobleizer on his Twitter feed.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... nt-tracked

Irony meter just assploded!

Foggy · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:23 am

If anybody still haz a Google+ to spare, I'm interested. Use my admin email, por favor: neblighahn@gmail.com

listeme · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:25 am

Done.

Foggy wrote:

If anybody still haz a Google+ to spare, I'm interested. Use my admin email, por favor: neblighahn@gmail.com

Foggy · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:34 am

THANK YOU!!! :hug:

Foggy · **Posted:** Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:38 am

21 Circles on Google+ You Can Really Use

Plutodog · **Posted:** Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:51 pm

Invite?

Mikedunford · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 1:48 am

Plutodog wrote:

Invite?

PM me gmail address, and I'll try.

Somerset · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:38 am

Mikedunford wrote:

Plutodog wrote:

Invite?

PM me gmail address, and I'll try.

Same here (which goes to anyone who wants an invite).

Bob Ross · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:42 am

Looks like someone thought William Shatner's google+ account was too fake and he got banned.

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/w ... gle-133481

Highlands · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 12:47 am

Estiveo · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:57 am

Seriously, just from what little I've seen so far of Google+, it looks like an even bigger privacy killer than teh Facebook.

As many of you know, because we beez FB friends, I am on Facebook, but it's a constant pain in the behind to keep up with the stoopit changes they make. I've put my privacy settings at "Fuck You." That mostly works, but every month or so Mark Zuckerborg gets another bright idea, implements it, then requires me to go back and reset the "Fuck You" option to include whatever retarded change he made. The big problem is figuring out where to go to block the change that revealed the data that disclosed the name that exposed the privacy that Zuckerborg didn't care about protecting.

Google+ looks like exactly that...with less control

Sergey Brin and Larry Page can kiss my rosey red asshole, I shall not be joining the Google+ circles of Hell.

Highlands · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:57 am

Mark Zuckerburg is so hot though, in a nerdy kind of way. 8-)

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

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