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First of all, you are comparing apple to oranges. Google+ is not a direct competition to Facebook and there are many ways all three (including Twitter) can coex

by lomegor 15y ago

First of all, you are comparing apple to oranges. Google+ is not a direct competition to Facebook and there are many ways all three (including Twitter) can coexist. Lastly, the Facebook user experience is really horrible. That's one of the top reasons I don't use it. Menus are not ordered, options are hidden, many parts are not explained nor documented, top search works different depending which page you are one, etc. And even though my grandma uses it, most of the times, she's posting on other people's walls things she wanted to share with other people, or not posting on walls when she is trying to communicate with my brother. The experience is just too complicated.

DarkShikari 15y ago
First of all, you are comparing apple to oranges. Google+ is not a direct competition to Facebook No matter how much they are claimed to solve different problems, they work in the same way and occupy a similar brain space. Facebook is already well above and beyond the level of time sink that many people are willing to accept. Their user numbers are already starting to drop in many countries because many people -- even ordinary users -- eventually run out of patience. Given Facebook is already wearing peoples' patience thin, it's unlikely many people really want to give full engagement to both sites at once. People just don't have the time, and after you've spent 30 minutes on Facebook, do you really want to go over to Google+ and repeat the same process again? It's kind of like trying to play multiple similar MMORPGs (say, WoW and LOTRO) at the same time; they occupy the same sort of brain space, so when you're bored with one, you probably don't want to go play the other. But maybe you can actively enjoy two different experiences; say, World of Tanks and EVE at the same time... or Facebook and Twitter. Google+ could hypothetically win out against Facebook, but it's unlikely that they can seriously coexist with a large overlap in users. Most likely, Google+ will end up like other social networking services like Orkut; very popular among some particular groups (Brazillians, in the Orkut case), but very lacking in penetration outside of that, due to the network effect.
- samstave 15y ago
  I have never had a facebook account. I never will. I have had a G+ account for many months and I dont use it at all. Literally zero time per week. There are too many distractions online, I don't watch TV at all either, but I just don't have the brain space for the following peoples feeds. I had scoble on my follow list on G+ when I first joined, and I had to drop him because he just produced way too much crap I didnt have time or interest to read. Between my family, friends, reddit and HN, I have way too much content than I know what to do with. Aside from this - it detracts from my attempts to dedicate time to learning new things. I am very close to dropping reddit and HN and only watching Kahn and other online trainings.
m_ke 15y ago
G+ is what it is because it can't compete with Facebook. At this point they're rolling with whatever they can get and it seems to be a sparse tech savvy crowd that only logs in because the service is ran by google. It really doesn't do anything that people don't already get from forums/facebook/twitter/linkedin.

by lomegor 15y ago

DarkShikari 15y ago

First of all, you are comparing apple to oranges. Google+ is not a direct competition to Facebook No matter how much they are claimed to solve different problems, they work in the same way and occupy a similar brain space. Facebook is already well above and beyond the level of time sink that many people are willing to accept. Their user numbers are already starting to drop in many countries because many people -- even ordinary users -- eventually run out of patience. Given Facebook is already wearing peoples' patience thin, it's unlikely many people really want to give full engagement to both sites at once. People just don't have the time, and after you've spent 30 minutes on Facebook, do you really want to go over to Google+ and repeat the same process again? It's kind of like trying to play multiple similar MMORPGs (say, WoW and LOTRO) at the same time; they occupy the same sort of brain space, so when you're bored with one, you probably don't want to go play the other. But maybe you can actively enjoy two different experiences; say, World of Tanks and EVE at the same time... or Facebook and Twitter. Google+ could hypothetically win out against Facebook, but it's unlikely that they can seriously coexist with a large overlap in users. Most likely, Google+ will end up like other social networking services like Orkut; very popular among some particular groups (Brazillians, in the Orkut case), but very lacking in penetration outside of that, due to the network effect.

samstave 15y ago
I have never had a facebook account. I never will. I have had a G+ account for many months and I dont use it at all. Literally zero time per week. There are too many distractions online, I don't watch TV at all either, but I just don't have the brain space for the following peoples feeds. I had scoble on my follow list on G+ when I first joined, and I had to drop him because he just produced way too much crap I didnt have time or interest to read. Between my family, friends, reddit and HN, I have way too much content than I know what to do with. Aside from this - it detracts from my attempts to dedicate time to learning new things. I am very close to dropping reddit and HN and only watching Kahn and other online trainings.

m_ke 15y ago

G+ is what it is because it can't compete with Facebook. At this point they're rolling with whatever they can get and it seems to be a sparse tech savvy crowd that only logs in because the service is ran by google. It really doesn't do anything that people don't already get from forums/facebook/twitter/linkedin.