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Am I the only person seeing G+ and Facebook as too orthogonal to directly compete? Yes, the tech side is nearly identical. But the communities are so diverse, t

by lrem 14y ago

Am I the only person seeing G+ and Facebook as too orthogonal to directly compete? Yes, the tech side is nearly identical. But the communities are so diverse, that it doesn't even make sense comparing... I go to Facebook, what do I see? Babies of my friends, party invitations, jokes that have left Reddit 3 years ago who someone translated a year ago into a native language and so on. I go to Google+ ,what do I see? Posts, by people I've never partied with, which actually tend to interest me. There's that lawyer stuff about evolution of tech-related law. There is some really cool hacking. Some random excerpts of science. And generally a lot of interesting stuff, that's not personal and would never make it on Facebook.

herval 14y ago
It all depends who you interact with and how. In my case, Facebook shows me a good deal of interesting stuff (although there's a manual work of filtering out friends over time, as they post irrelevant stuff). Stopped using G+ a few weeks ago, since all I saw there was an echo of what I'm actively blocking on Facebook: jokes, funny videos and more of the same
smackfu 14y ago
The problem for Google is the first group is a lot bigger than the second.
JPKab 14y ago
This. I see Google + as being much, much more of a LinkedIn killer than a Facebook killer. I find that for all the purposes that LinkedIn WANTS me to go to their site and use it (Special Interest groups, etc) I end up going to Google + for. The whole "sharing with different circles" thing is very intuitive, and makes it very easy for me to selectively share things with A)coworkers, B) the public, and C)people in my field of interest that are possibly future employers, coworkers, or project partners. LinkedIn tries hard to do this and fails. They were there first, but they are now, for the vast majority of my coworkers, a place you go to update your resume or look at a shitty recruiter's broadly targeted message. I get nothing out of the groups, because they are filled with annoying recruiter spam rather than actual articles of interest. Message to Google: Start letting users upload resumes, parse out the data (you are better at this than other companies) automatically create profiles, and let users select which aspects of their profile/resume they want to share and with who. You have 95% of the capability already present. Get to work, because I find LinkedIn to be mediocre (despite my GREAT, GREAT respect for the data specialists at the company and their developer's work on API's)

by lrem 14y ago

herval 14y ago

It all depends who you interact with and how. In my case, Facebook shows me a good deal of interesting stuff (although there's a manual work of filtering out friends over time, as they post irrelevant stuff). Stopped using G+ a few weeks ago, since all I saw there was an echo of what I'm actively blocking on Facebook: jokes, funny videos and more of the same

smackfu 14y ago

The problem for Google is the first group is a lot bigger than the second.

JPKab 14y ago

This. I see Google + as being much, much more of a LinkedIn killer than a Facebook killer. I find that for all the purposes that LinkedIn WANTS me to go to their site and use it (Special Interest groups, etc) I end up going to Google + for. The whole "sharing with different circles" thing is very intuitive, and makes it very easy for me to selectively share things with A)coworkers, B) the public, and C)people in my field of interest that are possibly future employers, coworkers, or project partners. LinkedIn tries hard to do this and fails. They were there first, but they are now, for the vast majority of my coworkers, a place you go to update your resume or look at a shitty recruiter's broadly targeted message. I get nothing out of the groups, because they are filled with annoying recruiter spam rather than actual articles of interest. Message to Google: Start letting users upload resumes, parse out the data (you are better at this than other companies) automatically create profiles, and let users select which aspects of their profile/resume they want to share and with who. You have 95% of the capability already present. Get to work, because I find LinkedIn to be mediocre (despite my GREAT, GREAT respect for the data specialists at the company and their developer's work on API's)