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Or position. I've been running the online branch of a news organisation, so a lot of the people who are in my direct network are journalists, people trying to g

by rjd 15y ago

Or position. I've been running the online branch of a news organisation, so a lot of the people who are in my direct network are journalists, people trying to get attention from the media, and of course advertising agencies. I used G+ for about 3 weeks from launch and I found it a horrible experience. Basically none of the people I want to keep in touch with use it, everything else was spam. I'm also known under a pseudonym so I didn't see any point of using the service. I found it more of an highly opinionated Tumblr clone (lacking the flare of Tumblr) than a Facebook clone.

rwolf 15y ago
Based on your comments here, it sounds like your circles mainly included professional contacts. Have you used twitter in a similar fashion? How were the spam levels there? Edit: My question sounded sarcastic when I reread it. I don't have any newspaper-industry contacts on twitter or google+, so I'm curious about the extent to which the network influences their sharing habits.
- rjd 15y ago
  My EDIT: Most of them use posting tools, like ping.fm. So all networks are spammed equally. They just use social networks as spam aggregation tools ----------------------------------------- LOL I used twitter for a while, but I found it very intrusive and stopped using it. That was before I started working for 'big media'. From a personal level I didn't see much value from it. I still have a professional account but I only check that once a week or something. I don't have a desire to be instantly upto date like some people, I can wait a week and really I have IM, work email, personal email, cellphone, work phone, facebook, tumblr, all buzzying constantly. I don't need more crap what I need is more time. If someone would build a social network that address information overflow that'd be great. (just misspelled 'network' as 'betwork' ... theres an idea for someone that loves maths, build a social tool to share sports betting odds amongst friends, liek a better tipping game or something)
ajross 15y ago
Wait, that's not "spam" as traditionally understood. What you're describing is targetted email intended specifically for you. You're saying essentially that people who wanted to find you, could. That's a bad thing from an anonymity perspective, I guess, but it's a rather different problem than "spam".
- rjd 15y ago
  I don't think so. If someone is spamming a thread they are over posting, I view it the same way. I can remember at one point having 200 Facebook emails in one day. Tell me that isn't spam. I often hear people moanign abuot 'Facebook spam' and have heard others moan about 'Google+ spam' as well. Sure you signed up, and might nto truly unsolicated, but its the quantity thats the issue. A daily update similiar to what linkedIn does is what I would prefer.

by rjd 15y ago

rwolf 15y ago

Based on your comments here, it sounds like your circles mainly included professional contacts. Have you used twitter in a similar fashion? How were the spam levels there? Edit: My question sounded sarcastic when I reread it. I don't have any newspaper-industry contacts on twitter or google+, so I'm curious about the extent to which the network influences their sharing habits.

rjd 15y ago
My EDIT: Most of them use posting tools, like ping.fm. So all networks are spammed equally. They just use social networks as spam aggregation tools ----------------------------------------- LOL I used twitter for a while, but I found it very intrusive and stopped using it. That was before I started working for 'big media'. From a personal level I didn't see much value from it. I still have a professional account but I only check that once a week or something. I don't have a desire to be instantly upto date like some people, I can wait a week and really I have IM, work email, personal email, cellphone, work phone, facebook, tumblr, all buzzying constantly. I don't need more crap what I need is more time. If someone would build a social network that address information overflow that'd be great. (just misspelled 'network' as 'betwork' ... theres an idea for someone that loves maths, build a social tool to share sports betting odds amongst friends, liek a better tipping game or something)

ajross 15y ago

Wait, that's not "spam" as traditionally understood. What you're describing is targetted email intended specifically for you. You're saying essentially that people who wanted to find you, could. That's a bad thing from an anonymity perspective, I guess, but it's a rather different problem than "spam".

rjd 15y ago
I don't think so. If someone is spamming a thread they are over posting, I view it the same way. I can remember at one point having 200 Facebook emails in one day. Tell me that isn't spam. I often hear people moanign abuot 'Facebook spam' and have heard others moan about 'Google+ spam' as well. Sure you signed up, and might nto truly unsolicated, but its the quantity thats the issue. A daily update similiar to what linkedIn does is what I would prefer.