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I was excited about G+ at first, but decided that their invitation-only game to drive up demand is childish and that I will wait for them to open up for everyon
by muuh-gnu 15y ago
I was excited about G+ at first, but decided that their invitation-only game to drive up demand is childish and that I will wait for them to open up for everyone, like I did with gmail back then. Then they started to strictly enforce a stupid, stupid real name policy, so I decided no to bother. The more they push that stupid, unwanted policy against their users, the more I actually root for FB to "win" the social network battle.
- redthrowaway 15y agoFacebook (loosely) enforces the same policy.
- muuh-gnu 15y agoI don't use FB either. I had a higher opinion of Google, as many other people also hoped G+ would be a social network made right. But enforcing stupid policies right from the start against early adopters is ridiculous, no matter what the policy in question actually is. This early in the game they simply can not afford alienating enthusiastic early users, but they're doing exactly that. If this is the shape of the things to yet come, it is no wonder that users are deciding no to bother any more.
- teach 15y agoI'm pretty certain that "invitation only" wasn't a ploy to drive up demand; it was just a way to make sure they could scale up the number of users in some sane fashion.