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Reason why none of that matters now: Zynga's crack-like games. 2008: You sign up for Facebook and are immediately bored. Then you discover pokes and inane s

Reason why none of that matters now: Zynga's crack-like games. 2008: You sign up for Facebook and are immediately bored. Then you discover pokes and inane surveys, and have some fun once a few friends are signed up. 2011: Facebook entertainment has become Zynga's click-slave crack-code, and that's what brings in the 'normals'. Google+ is where Facebook was in 2008, but without the fun. These are the first questions I had upon signing up to Google+, and to my knowledge they are unanswered: * Where are my friends? * How do I bring over my contacts from Facebook? (the Facebook --> Yahoo --> Google+ thing was ridiculous) * What can I do for fun? Google+ has exactly the same problem that almost every other Google product has had: its value isn't immediately apparent. It's amazingly opaque for a product that people hope will dethrone Facebook. Add to that the fact that there are none of the 'fun' things that Facebook has, and I fail to see how this is any sort of competition.

hugh3 15y ago
Where are my friends? They seem to be showing up one by one. How do I bring over my contacts from Facebook? (the Facebook --> Yahoo --> Google+ thing was ridiculous) Ah, but that's exactly what I don't want to do. I want to start over with a friends list that contains people I actually like and am comfortable sharing stuff with, rather than a sundry collection of people I met twice plus folks I sorta-knew at high school plus ex-girlfriends I can't bring myself to defriend. What can I do for fun? So far it's mostly "talk to my friends". And that's not too bad! Right now, G+ seems like a more "grown-up" place than facebook. If the market segments so that twenty-and-thirty-something professional types are primarily using G+ and facebook remains the hangout of choice for cow-clicking high schoolers and their grandparents then I'm fine with that.
iamwil 15y ago
It's fun to socialize. And a lot of that is talking with people, and spending time with them. It's not the only kind of fun. But it's fun enough for G+ to be compelling.

hugh3 15y ago

Where are my friends? They seem to be showing up one by one. How do I bring over my contacts from Facebook? (the Facebook --> Yahoo --> Google+ thing was ridiculous) Ah, but that's exactly what I don't want to do. I want to start over with a friends list that contains people I actually like and am comfortable sharing stuff with, rather than a sundry collection of people I met twice plus folks I sorta-knew at high school plus ex-girlfriends I can't bring myself to defriend. What can I do for fun? So far it's mostly "talk to my friends". And that's not too bad! Right now, G+ seems like a more "grown-up" place than facebook. If the market segments so that twenty-and-thirty-something professional types are primarily using G+ and facebook remains the hangout of choice for cow-clicking high schoolers and their grandparents then I'm fine with that.

iamwil 15y ago

It's fun to socialize. And a lot of that is talking with people, and spending time with them. It's not the only kind of fun. But it's fun enough for G+ to be compelling.