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So now instead of college kids complaining about an influx of teenagers (Facebook), we can have technology enthusiasts complaining about an influx of teenagers!
by joshuahedlund 15y ago
So now instead of college kids complaining about an influx of teenagers (Facebook), we can have technology enthusiasts complaining about an influx of teenagers! The "what's hot" section has less of a tech bias than it used to already, but I wonder what it will look like in a month.
- karpathy 15y agoThe what's hot section is just as lazy and useless as Twitter trending topics. I almost never find globally hot topics hot. Twitter occasionally has some semi-relevant content there, but Google+ hot topics are dominated by funny pictures and gifs. I can only see this problem growing further as a result of these changes.
- itcmcgrath 15y agoThis seems like a problem that is just asking to be solved. I've thought of this before: Just like you can use Location to affect what topics are hot for you, if they could determine a way to select area of interest to filter them it might prove useful once again. I'm sure it isn't a trivial thing to solve; but not impossible.
- kalleboo 15y agoGoogle may already have determined your interests via their Ad profiling. They got me pretty spot-on, you can see what they've pinned you down as liking at http://www.google.com/ads/preferences http://www.google.com/ads/preferences
- chunky1994 15y agoHowever, lots of teenagers will be glad to be on google+, I've felt extremely frustrated at not being on it not because it's a "hip" social site, but because of google's constant integration of google+ into everything. It was like going to disney-land without seeing Mickey Mouse, so I hardly think the complaints would be justified. Also, not to forget lots of teenagers are tech-oriented, let's not forget how apple and Microsoft started!