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It's been a few days. Today I showed it to a semi-techie female friend and she loved it. Couldn't wait to send her an invite. But the thing about "normal" peop
by nextparadigms 15y ago
It's been a few days. Today I showed it to a semi-techie female friend and she loved it. Couldn't wait to send her an invite.
But the thing about "normal" people is that they just don't get that excited about joining any new site in general. They usually join them through peer pressure and after they start hearing about it on TV, or in other such common places.
So yeah give it time to grow naturally, the same way Facebook or Twitter grew. Don't expect all your non-techie friends to be on Google+ a month after it launched. Some will join, others won't (for now).
- seri 15y agoTotally. While it's true that getting praises from Andy the accountant and Bella the homecoming queen is much more meaningful than praises from Chris the programmer, it's just a matter of fact that attracting Andy and Bella in the early days is close to impossible. Andy and Bella just don't care about any new social network at all. And some of them have heavily invested in enriching their Facebook experience that they would think of G+ as a threat. Perhaps more importantly, techies can have fun by themselves. They would play with Circles, follow tech celebs, tweak around with Sparks, and love discussing random topics with strangers. Now suppose early adopters consist of Andies and Bellas, they would just sit and wait until somebody does something. That said, at the end of the day, G+ will finally have to figure out how to get Andy and Bella in.