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That's actually pretty close to what Google+ tried with "Circles" when it launched: the idea that people exist in several distinct yet fluid social universes an
by matt4077 10y ago
That's actually pretty close to what Google+ tried with "Circles" when it launched: the idea that people exist in several distinct yet fluid social universes and that there should be a way to apply fine-grained yet intuitive rules to your sharing behavior.
Turns out most people exist in one social universe, namely Facebook.
- andy_ppp 10y agoMost people over the age of 20...
- bbctol 10y agoI'd say it more turned out that Circles were decidedly unintuitive, and far more of a pain to use than Facebook's single list (which can still be heavily customized, most people just don't bother.)
- throwanem 10y agoDoesn't Facebook also have a nasty habit of surprising people with breaking changes to the way those customizations work? I seem to recall hearing of such things on a fairly regular basis.
- pantalaimon 10y agoI think the circles were fine, the problem g+ had was that it lacked plenty reasonable features (events, anyone? never understood this when google calendar integration would have been a killer feature). That's facebooks main use case for a lot of people and it's absence made g+ pretty useless.