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So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?
- wccrawford 15y agoWait for your friends to get theirs, of course.
- skarayan 15y agoCouldn't you just invite your friends?
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- wccrawford 15y agoI think they've opened up invites again now, but for a while, you couldn't. I suspect it will roll in waves like that as they hit capacity and expand, over and over.
- ary 15y ago"Invite" is a verb, and "invitation" is a noun. Journalists should know better.
- gte910h 15y agoInvite is an also a noun meaning invitation. Invitation is the more formal version of the same concept. You can say "I wish she was not so informal", but that's a perfectly reasonable use of the word. Invite dates to 1649 and invitation dates to the 15th century. (m-w.com)
- hugh3 15y agoYou can say "I wish she was not so informal", but that's a perfectly reasonable use of the word Surely it should be "I wish she were not so informal"?
- gte910h 15y agoNo, "were" would only be used if you were supposing a condition different than reality. When used in the first person, it's the past subjunctive. So a valid sentence with "were" might be: "If she were a man." As the writer is in informal in the judgement of the commenter, the commenter therefore should use "was".
- ary 15y agoI stand corrected. The use of the word in this context feels colloquial though.
- iqster 15y agoThey've stopped the invites. In fact, they essentially revoked invitations ... i.e. people I invited last night couldn't use their invitation email this morning. Unless Google turns it on soon, they're gonna lose a lot of good will. They've already managed to tick me off. I also find it funny that people were using Facebook's wall to distribute Google+ invites to their friends. And I always thought that seeding a social network was hard :-p
- bdhe 15y agoThey've stopped the invites. In fact, they essentially revoked invitations ... i.e. people I invited last night couldn't use their invitation email this morning. Is that true? I was under the impression that the invites were not guaranteed and there was some sort of rate limit on the number of invites that were allowed to create Google+ accounts. I think your invitees can retry after sometime.
- tonfa 15y agoYes, just retry.
- CarlWhite 15y agoNot entirely true, I was sent an invite an invite a few hours ago - works fine.
- lzm 15y agoI've been trying to use my invite for at least 8 hours with no success. Perhaps Google is limiting registration selectively? (e.g per country/region)
- mattdeboard 15y agoThey didn't "essentially revoke" invitations. They capped new "account creation" (though obv it's not literally account creation). That is a separate step from inviting someone. People with invites have invites, so when they open it back up, people with invites already in hand will be at the front of the line.
- joebadmo 15y agoAfter having played with Google+ for a few hours, I find that the Circles feature is deceptively complicated, and can lead to unintended information leakage. I've described it further here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714333 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714333
- Aloisius 15y agoI have to say, classifying my contacts is stressful. I created an "Inner Circle" and I'm thinking about creating a Professional one as well. Or more likely I'll just stop playing with it.