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Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me ri
by cryptoz 15y ago
Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that.
It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.
- revorad 15y agoTry this: Add all your friends to a circle. Share a post with that circle. They will all get email notifications, which will gradually allow them in.
- nuggien 15y agoYep, this is how I invited most people in.
- matwood 15y agoLooks like they are adding people in rounds. This morning I added some friends to circles trying to find out how to get them in then later in the morning all of them were added. I did the same thing again and it had appeared to stop working. Late this afternoon all of the additional people were added. Basically add everyone you want to circles and make a post. They'll likely get through the invite within a day or less based on my current experience.
- Ygor 15y agoI had the opposite reaction: At first only a couple of close friends were in my circles, and it felt like a true social site. Even though many of us are miles and miles apart, we were sharing, talking, hanging out and posting. All this without hundreds of relatives, coworkers, ex girlfriends silently watching us like some stalkers from the bushes. It got even better once i realized that because of the way circles work, this kind of feeling might actually be preserved without much effort on my behalf.
- DrHankPym 15y agoI'm actually very excited about this feature. I feel like George Costanza faced with "worlds colliding" when my family, friends, and coworkers were all meeting each other on my wall. I had to give up the site because I have to keep those lives separate for my own sanity.
- joebadmo 15y agoI was also excited about this feature (and the way it's properly exposed and integrated) until I started thinking about how sharing to a list can get complicated in deceptive ways very quickly. For example: when someone comments on something I shared, how does she know who will see that comment? I have a more thorough explanation here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714333 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714333
- wikyd 15y agoG+ posts have a link in the top right corner that says: "Limited" or "Public." If you click on limited, you can see everyone who can see that post.
- joebadmo 15y agoYes, but that's still a significant amount of friction for something as important as understanding what your social context is. And how many people are really going to understand that that distinction even exists? I think the real problem is that there's no easy mental model for the way information flows through the system. That's what metaphors are for. A "Circle" is not a metaphor. It's just a brand.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoThe people that don't notice are the same ones spamming their friends with FarmVille invites and there's limited controls for blocking them without disavowing them entirely within Facebook. They're the people that post drunk pics to Facebook in "Everyone" albums without any consideration. So what if they use + the same way. Ignore them, move them to a quieter circle. And for their benefit, it defaults to a more protective privacy setting than Facebook, especially for pictures.
- jsdalton 15y agoYou're one step ahead of me: I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I haven't gotten an invite yet!
- dekz 15y agoI got an invite, to my google apps domain account. Can't use it.
- jnhnum1 15y agoI don't think invites are tied to specific email addresses?
- dekz 15y agoThey are. I attempted to use the signup invite link given on a different account, it failed.
- tonfa 15y agoMight have been a generic failure due to a signup rate limiting. Maybe it's worth retrying for a couple of time.
- dekz 15y agoI just got it sent to my @gmail
- epochwolf 15y agoThey aren't. I got an invite on my epochwolf gmail account but signed up with my personal gmail account. (Which I happened to be logged in to at the time)
- dekz 15y agoSo you went from @gmail to @gmail? Not Apps domain to @gmail
- superuser2 15y agoWave failed for this reason. It's a communication tool; if the people I want to communicate with can't use it right now, I'm moving on. The invite-only, throttled approach worked for GMail because you could use it to talk to people who aren't on GMail. Facebook's gradual launch worked because entire social networks (universities) could join at once. Wave and Google+, however, were/are worthless in closed beta.