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The thing I notice about Google+ is that the only thing people use it for is talking about Google+. This strikes me as a bad thing. Didn't Orkut and Wave and
by Stormbringer 15y ago
The thing I notice about Google+ is that the only thing people use it for is talking about Google+.
This strikes me as a bad thing. Didn't Orkut and Wave and other 'failed' similar services from other companies have the same problem? Limited appeal? Too recursively tied up in their own cleverness?
The thing people hate about Facebook is the trivial uses the muggles put it to. But there are not 500 million techos in the world.
Unless and until people start talking about mundane non-techo stuff, I won't consider Google+ to have succeeded.
- donaq 15y agoI already use it for sharing pictures with my friends and more or less as a replacement for Twitter. Of course, I'm not a very typical example, since my Twitter is mostly tech news links anyway.
- leviathant 15y agoThat may say more about your online friends than it says about Google+. I have friends on Facebook talking about Google+, and occasionally see a mention of it on Twitter, but everyone in my G+ "Friends" circle are using it as they had been using Facebook. At least two have closed down their Facebook account and migrated completely, and while they're more techie than Joe-YouTube-Commenter, one works at a bank and the other in carving granite, so, not -that- kind of techie.