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> The only problem with g+ is that none of my friends use it. At one point in time, you and everybody else had the same problem in Facebook, yet everybody stil
by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> The only problem with g+ is that none of my friends use it.
At one point in time, you and everybody else had the same problem in Facebook, yet everybody still switched.
Sometimes, if you really want something but social inertia is against you, you have to be a trendmaker/leader and force your friends to follow you against their will. Make yourself rare, and if you're valuable enough in your circle, they will follow you. If they dont, it only means that using Facebook is more valuable for them than keeping in touch with you.
Thats how Facebook won. All the cool and rich and influential ivy league kids got there first, and the sheep had no choice but to follow. Do you remember arguments like "Why should I use FB? None of my friends are there?" from the early era where every early adopter's friends were somewhere else?
If your _only_ argument for one network and against another is where your "friends" already are, this means only that you are one of the following-only sheep without any social influence whatsoever, and will simply use whatever you're socially pressured into. With enough FB data about you, it would probably be possible to tell whom Google would have to make to switch to G+ first, so that you as the weaker link have no other choice than to follow.
- paganel 14y ago> if you really want something but social inertia is against you, you have to be a trendmaker/leader and force your friends to follow you against their will. Honest question, why would anyone "want" to move from FB into G+ so much so as to be a "leader" and having to convince his/her friends into following? This pretty much sounds like a cult.