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I use Tweetdeck (on my phone) and Rockmelt (on desktop) to post to Facebook and Twitter. I don't always post to both at the same time but when I want to... it i
by jack-r-abbit 15y ago
I use Tweetdeck (on my phone) and Rockmelt (on desktop) to post to Facebook and Twitter. I don't always post to both at the same time but when I want to... it is easy. I just need to select where it goes before I send it. I would very much LOVE to include G+ in this scenario but I cannot. In the beginning I was really trying to give G+ the shot it deserved. I was making the extra effort to make common posts in my G+ app, too. I even went a couple days where I only posted stuff to G+. But it was too early. Now I check in on my G+ stream maybe once a week to catch up with stuff from a few friends that have made the full jump and I rarely post anything. I would really like an app that can post via an API. I would certainly use G+ more.
On a side note, I kind of like what G+ was thinking with the Circles concept as a way of filtering but I don't really like it in practice... or maybe it was just how my friends were using it. Most of the people I know on G+ created Circles and used them like you might use tags in a blog post. A post from a Mac person about a cool photo app or feature they found in the latest iOS might be visible only to people in their "Mac-heads", "Photog" and "iOS" circles. I'm not a Photog or a Mac/iOS person but still might be interested in content of that nature. I can understand having Circles like "Coworkers" and "Bible Study Group" where there might be discussions that should be kept private. But using Circles like tagging seems excessively exclusionary when it is not done for privacy reason. While I appreciate the sentiment of people not wanting to bore me with stuff I may not be interested in, I think it made the "share ALL the things" pendulum swing too far the other way. (just my opinion)
- camikazegreen 15y agoI think that this is the biggest challenge that G+ needs to solve, at least for the way that I use the service. I want to share things publicly without spamming my friends with things they would not be interested in. What I want to be able to do is share something publicly that my Hackers circle or my Rock Climbing circle would appreciate without spamming the other. Similarly, there are plenty of people that I want to follow because of their insight in one area, but I don't want to see their lolcats.
- jack-r-abbit 15y agoI think the difference is like this: Circles: I don't think you want to see my lolcats so I'll just deny you access to see them. Filters: I don't want to see your lolcats so I'll just hide them from my stream. As a consumer of my stream, I would like to have as much control over it as I can. Circles gives me almost no control over what I see. Since we don't know what Circles we've been put in and we don't see content for Circles we're not in, we really have no idea what we've missed.