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Facebook's early exclusivity was great for college kids and spreading amongst certain young people - making it cool. You had to have a .edu email to log in! It
by Pigalowda 4y ago
Facebook's early exclusivity was great for college kids and spreading amongst certain young people - making it cool. You had to have a .edu email to log in! It was also much better than Myspace.
Google+ was mediocre and not better than the competition. Young people didn't care about it. The exclusivity was generated by a company - it didn't appeal to the user's inherent bias. Facebook initially appealed to narcissism - the early users "knew" they were "better" than myspace users.
What was Google+ appealing to? Being a nerd?
- mhitza 4y agoDon't know about others but I really enjoyed Google+. The tech groups around there were pretty great, heck even Linus Torvalds used it to post some rants at the time. Reader and Google+ were services I really enjoyed using for content.
- blitzar 4y agoGoogle+ was excellent. I liked the social graph that was the "circles" (nice data mining of my effort to create the circles google) - this was in the days where when you posted to social media you were posting to people no to public. Now that I think about it, my whatsapp groups intersect in a similar manner, and people post (manually) the same thing to multiple groups, but not every group we have in common.