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Google+ fills a void for me most similar to a mix between Twitter and HN. The discussions are what makes it shine. Why doesn't this happen on Facebook or Twitt
by rryan 15y ago
Google+ fills a void for me most similar to a mix between Twitter and HN. The discussions are what makes it shine.
Why doesn't this happen on Facebook or Twitter? Here's what I think:
For most people, Facebook is just the wrong context for intellectual discussions.
Similarly, Twitter's medium and user interface are too limiting to have quality discussions since there is no centralized concept of a post. It's just a sea of tweets, retweets and reply tweets that you have to track if you want to follow the discussion.
A lot of my real-world friends are on G+ but that's really only an ancillary benefit to me because I can direct share things to my friends in 1-click from anywhere on the web (e.g. with the +1 Chrome extension). G+ would still have value to me without them, honestly.
- gms 15y agoThat's fine, but realise that intellectual discussions are a niche use case.
- xxbondsxx 15y agoLike gms said, the majority of the public doesn't have intellectual discussions. It's hard to engage the masses with a killer feature like that... you might as well be selling online PhD Dissertation latex markup editors. I still agree, but it's sometimes hard for HN to separate their own niche uses of software versus what will be successful on the market. Pinterest and even Chill are examples of this
- aufreak3 15y agoI find use for G+ due to the same higher intellect density that my circles generate on it. If Google were really interested in integrating their crawling search with social search, they'd provide a "share this search with your circles" feature on the google search page, together with some descriptive text that you add like in a normal G+ post .. so people in my circles can respond with results that they think are relevant/related/tangential/interesting/whatever.