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Really? You don't know anyone using G+? If so, you are missing out. The +1 feature alone is worth the non-price of pre-admission. Of course, I feel a similar w

Really? You don't know anyone using G+? If so, you are missing out. The +1 feature alone is worth the non-price of pre-admission. Of course, I feel a similar way about Facebook. I know a lot of people use Facebook avidly, but I almost never do. Every time I log onto that site I regret it. At least on G+ I can aggressively tune out the boneheads with some hope of success and without incurring a ton of social kickback.

atirip 14y ago
Yes, honestly really. I use FB to keep in touch with my real friends I don't see very often, or at all. Most of my friends are not geeks and they will never-ever join twitter or g+. Also I do not share much and I do not press Like buttons. Ever. Apps are disabled, explicitly. I do not seek popularity. My Friend Policy is - I must have meet you outside work and voluntarily talked with you about something not realated to work. Maybe I'm the last dinosaur.
- KirinDave 14y ago
  > Most of my friends are not geeks and they will never-ever join twitter or g+. And here you overplay your hand. You have no idea what Twitter's main userbase is.
  - atirip 14y ago
    I know, but for some reason, twitter never got off here.
k3n 14y ago
The +1 is a feature? I haven't seen any real value demonstrated from it, except as a marketing gimmick my Google. The number of reported "+1's" means absolutely nothing to me.
- KirinDave 14y ago
  My friends +1 things and they get elevated on my search results. Since my friends tend to like things I too would be interested in (and they're also people I trust), this weighting is awesome and helps me all over the place.
  - ryanhuff 14y ago
    That's the sales pitch of +1, but I see no value, and purposefully avoid it. That's just me. And I'd much rather have a "-1" button.
    - k3n 14y ago
      I see +1 more as a "please store this piece of marketing info to my personal data portfolio"; pretty ingenious of Google, but I'm not falling for it.
      - KirinDave 14y ago
        I'm not sure why you'd view it this way, at least while still engaging in ANY online activity. The reality of the modern web is that everyone is tracking everything you do with their assets all the time. Even people you might not expect are keeping server logs that, with sufficient massaging, could reveal a lot of data. And Google hardly needs you to TELL them this data. They can determine your existence and search habits and friends simply by examining secondary sources. It's inevitable. Get over it. Or rather, get empowered by it. Google's play here is that they have this data for when you click through–and it's been helping them for years–but now they're exposing it to you. So you get the benefits of big data analysis in a context you can understand. Instead of being some sort of back-alley data collection initiative, +1 makes the whole process very much an up-front-and-transparent thing, complete with data export. \ I'm not sure how much more consumer-friendly and empowering a feature can be. Society wants the benefits of big data analysis and so companies have to find ways to make it valuable, transparent, and straightforward. How is this relationship any different from your relationship with Mint.com or Simple?
        14y ago

atirip 14y ago

Yes, honestly really. I use FB to keep in touch with my real friends I don't see very often, or at all. Most of my friends are not geeks and they will never-ever join twitter or g+. Also I do not share much and I do not press Like buttons. Ever. Apps are disabled, explicitly. I do not seek popularity. My Friend Policy is - I must have meet you outside work and voluntarily talked with you about something not realated to work. Maybe I'm the last dinosaur.

KirinDave 14y ago
> Most of my friends are not geeks and they will never-ever join twitter or g+. And here you overplay your hand. You have no idea what Twitter's main userbase is.
- atirip 14y ago
  I know, but for some reason, twitter never got off here.

k3n 14y ago

The +1 is a feature? I haven't seen any real value demonstrated from it, except as a marketing gimmick my Google. The number of reported "+1's" means absolutely nothing to me.

KirinDave 14y ago
My friends +1 things and they get elevated on my search results. Since my friends tend to like things I too would be interested in (and they're also people I trust), this weighting is awesome and helps me all over the place.
- ryanhuff 14y ago
  That's the sales pitch of +1, but I see no value, and purposefully avoid it. That's just me. And I'd much rather have a "-1" button.
  - k3n 14y ago
    I see +1 more as a "please store this piece of marketing info to my personal data portfolio"; pretty ingenious of Google, but I'm not falling for it.
    - KirinDave 14y ago
      I'm not sure why you'd view it this way, at least while still engaging in ANY online activity. The reality of the modern web is that everyone is tracking everything you do with their assets all the time. Even people you might not expect are keeping server logs that, with sufficient massaging, could reveal a lot of data. And Google hardly needs you to TELL them this data. They can determine your existence and search habits and friends simply by examining secondary sources. It's inevitable. Get over it. Or rather, get empowered by it. Google's play here is that they have this data for when you click through–and it's been helping them for years–but now they're exposing it to you. So you get the benefits of big data analysis in a context you can understand. Instead of being some sort of back-alley data collection initiative, +1 makes the whole process very much an up-front-and-transparent thing, complete with data export. \ I'm not sure how much more consumer-friendly and empowering a feature can be. Society wants the benefits of big data analysis and so companies have to find ways to make it valuable, transparent, and straightforward. How is this relationship any different from your relationship with Mint.com or Simple?
      - 14y ago