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"Had Google+ focused on a metric of “Users who choose to go to Google+ and share at least 2 updates per week“, they would have focused their efforts on deliveri

"Had Google+ focused on a metric of “Users who choose to go to Google+ and share at least 2 updates per week“, they would have focused their efforts on delivering value to users rather than popups that drive numbers." The Google+ foundation is all there -- they already focused on that: it really is the foundation of a brilliant social network, and I prefer it purely given that they don't decimate photos by the horrid overcompression that Facebook does. Their problem now is purely a network problem in that people don't see the point of sharing updates there given that many of the people they share them with aren't there. I fail to see how this example supports what they are saying whatsoever.

aidos 13y ago
OT My recollection of the G+ scenario is that they stunted it themselves - for whatever reason. By the time the people I knew actually had access I'd lost interest in waiting for my friends to show up. They arrived to find that after a month nothing was going on and they lost interest. I'm not sure how it's doing these days but it felt like a massive missed opportunity.
- darth_aardvark 13y ago
  Completely agree with this. Me and some other friends were legitimately excited for Google+ when it was released as beta but couldn't get an invite. By the time it went public nobody cared enough to fill out a profile.
  - drzaiusapelord 13y ago
    Dont worry, if you use gmail, youtube, or android you already have a profile ready for you. This idea of shoving everyone into G+ as your default google sign-on and identity is pretty controversial. Most everyone I talk to about it finds it annoying. So they went from being exclusionary to being almost mandatory. Not sure what the long term plan is here. Google probably doesn't know either. They rushed a facebook clone for their own reasons and now here it is, a virtual ghost town.
- egypturnash 13y ago
  also see "nymwars", pretty much my ENTIRE pseudonym-loving social circle hopped onto G+ with great enthusiasm, only to be chased off and/or fragmented by Google's REAL NAMES ONLY policy.
grbalaffa 13y ago
Google+ deserves to wither and die because of the BS they have pulled. When I'm forced to create a Google+ account just to use some of the basic features of the corporate Google Apps account which my company already paid for, it becomes quite clear there is no one at Google who gives a damn about customers. They are just trying to inflate their numbers at all possible costs. It will be a great day when companies are finally forced to stop playing the "number of signups" game and start playing the "number of people who actually like our service and use it willingly" game instead (and no, we're not there yet; not even close).

aidos 13y ago

OT My recollection of the G+ scenario is that they stunted it themselves - for whatever reason. By the time the people I knew actually had access I'd lost interest in waiting for my friends to show up. They arrived to find that after a month nothing was going on and they lost interest. I'm not sure how it's doing these days but it felt like a massive missed opportunity.

darth_aardvark 13y ago
Completely agree with this. Me and some other friends were legitimately excited for Google+ when it was released as beta but couldn't get an invite. By the time it went public nobody cared enough to fill out a profile.
- drzaiusapelord 13y ago
  Dont worry, if you use gmail, youtube, or android you already have a profile ready for you. This idea of shoving everyone into G+ as your default google sign-on and identity is pretty controversial. Most everyone I talk to about it finds it annoying. So they went from being exclusionary to being almost mandatory. Not sure what the long term plan is here. Google probably doesn't know either. They rushed a facebook clone for their own reasons and now here it is, a virtual ghost town.
egypturnash 13y ago
also see "nymwars", pretty much my ENTIRE pseudonym-loving social circle hopped onto G+ with great enthusiasm, only to be chased off and/or fragmented by Google's REAL NAMES ONLY policy.

grbalaffa 13y ago

Google+ deserves to wither and die because of the BS they have pulled. When I'm forced to create a Google+ account just to use some of the basic features of the corporate Google Apps account which my company already paid for, it becomes quite clear there is no one at Google who gives a damn about customers. They are just trying to inflate their numbers at all possible costs. It will be a great day when companies are finally forced to stop playing the "number of signups" game and start playing the "number of people who actually like our service and use it willingly" game instead (and no, we're not there yet; not even close).