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too complex to use may affect usage negatively. too many features is not always good. trying to mimic real live brings the complexities of real life to the web.
by fedd 15y ago
too complex to use may affect usage negatively. too many features is not always good. trying to mimic real live brings the complexities of real life to the web.
check this:
"With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time. Let specific buddies (or entire circles) know you’re hanging out and then see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat. Until teleportation arrives, it’s the next best thing."
imagine a jerk that noone loves intruding all the hangouts. but everybody too polite/dependant to unfriend
- Periodic 15y agoI'm sure they'll allow private video chats. Hangouts is for when you are specifically "browsing". It'll be just as if you lived right down the street from your mother, siblings, aunts, coworkers, friends... It currently is this way in the text world though. That annoying guy who argues with everything you post on Facebook or Twitter. And the worst part is you can't un-friend him because he's your weird uncle.
- cuu508 15y agoIn Facebook's privacy settings you can specify that your updates are visible to "Everyone; except person X". The annoying guy doesn't see your posts and stays calm, works brilliant.
- tonfa 15y agoThen remove him from the circle.
- fedd 15y agothat's like removing a guy from the circle in real life. not always easy
- muuh-gnu 15y agoAs I understood, the circles feature is especially suited to solve such "cant unfriend" problems, by letting you create an entirely similar circle but without the person you want to politely get rid of, and simply never tell him, so he'll never find out and you can graciously avoid the blame of "unfriending" someone.
- tonfa 15y agoI don't think he knows when you remove him from a circle, I don't think he knows the name of the circle too.
- metageek 15y agoCorrect.
- munificent 15y ago> imagine a jerk that noone loves intruding all the hangouts. but everybody too polite/dependant to unfriend When you enter your hangout, you specify what circle(s) see the announcement. So just make a "Everyone but Jerk" circle and post to that. He'll think you're never in your hangout.
- fedd 15y agocomments make sense, but then i think it'll be a bit complex to admin those circles. complex for general public, not us of course