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> WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? Maybe they want to work out the kinks before having 10 million users instantly. The privacy aspect of this will be very
by haberman 15y ago
> WHY?! WHY are they doing this again?
Maybe they want to work out the kinks before having 10 million users instantly. The privacy aspect of this will be very important, and the Buzz launch is an example of how opening up to everyone at the same time led to a large backlash.
- msbarnett 15y agoGoogle Buzz is a good example of how forcing an active account on everyone at the same time led to a large backlash. There's a pretty wide gulf between opening up and forcing it on people. You can't build a social networking sites if it isn't open to people in your users' social networks. But you also can't build a site people trust and want to use by forcing it on them.
- nostrademons 15y agoCuriously, I've heard that FaceBook also started by forcing an account on everyone - Zuckerburg scraped the online student database so that everyone at Harvard automatically had a FaceBook account. (Or rather, he scraped it for FaceMash and then used the data again to start FaceBook.) You can get away with a lot more when you're a college student project than when you're a multi-billion-$ corporation.
- nrbafna 15y agoIt is different. Buzz was forced on to anyone who logged into Gmail.
- rhc2104 15y agohttp://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register-for-new-facebook-website/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register... It does not seem like the Facemash data was reused for thefacebook.
- daralthus 15y agoStill I am curious, what circles would I get based on all the data google has ever collected from me.
- groby_b 15y agoAs far as I can tell, none. See here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-social/ http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so... Page 6, specifically: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-social/6/ http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so...
- darrenkopp 15y agoYet again I'll be in a situation where I (potentially, hopefully) get invited but everyone else I know won't be, so I won't be able to use it. I think having this be invite only, especially where _Google_ is the entity doing the invites is a recipe for disaster. Now, if they make it so that invited users can invite a good amount of other users (say, 100), then I think they _may_ be able to salvage this. If not, I'm not predicting a good outcome.
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- stanmancan 15y agoExactly. This is the same mistake they made with Wave, and it turned out horribly. I actually enjoyed the idea/concept of Wave, but I never had any reason to login and actually use it since I only had one other person I knew with an account. The same will happen to Google+.
- tapp 15y agoThis. The product description is extremely appealing to me - it tackles exactly what I find to be most wrong with current social network software. If I could, I would begin using it immediately and would probably get 60-80 people in my network to do the same and try it with me. If this product gets any traction, it seems like a near certainty that Facebook will launch a "Circles" UI for their groups feature, very quickly, no? I understand why Google is taking it slow, but if the idea sounds like old news by the time Google lets me invite people, I suspect they're going to seriously compromise their odds of user adoption.
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- Goronmon 15y agoA product's launch (which this is, effectively) seems like a poor time to be coy about who you want to actually have access to said product.