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In addition to what other people have said: Googlers love Google Plus. I haven't met a Googler (and, I know many) that doesn't love it. After all, for them, it

In addition to what other people have said: Googlers love Google Plus. I haven't met a Googler (and, I know many) that doesn't love it. After all, for them, it's not a barren wasteland. They have a very active network (coworkers/friends). I don't think this answers your question, however most Googlers like G+.

nostromo 13y ago
It's a much better product than Facebook. But a better social product means nothing without an active network of users.
- Geee 13y ago
  Better in what way? G+ has confusing and horrible interface, it's slow, and keeps asking me to import friends every single time I open up the page. That's not 'better product' in my opinion.
  - cromwellian 13y ago
    Better photos experience, better media embedding, better commenting (until Facebook later copied G+), better search, simpler privacy control system, better notification drop down, better mobile app, etc Asking to import and nag dialogues, I agree. They need to stop that.
  - wyclif 13y ago
    Compared to Facebook, it's beautifully designed.
    - dredmorbius 13y ago
      That ... actually makes me wince a bit. For the Facebookers. http://stylebot.me/styles/2446 http://stylebot.me/styles/2446 That's what it took for me to be able to tolerate the Plus.
- acdha 13y ago
  > It's a much better product than Facebook. It's slow and buggy (i.e. it jerks painfully while scrolling on modern touch devices, it's sluggish on the desktop even in Chrome and they broke spacebar scrolling!), the photo upload experience doesn't work as reliably, search is embarrassing for Google and the timeline still doesn't do basic things like clustering shares of the same item or sorting based on what you've found interesting. When Google can't compete with Facebook on technical quality, you know it's because of a management decision rather than lack of technical resources. > But a better social product means nothing without an active network of users. Lots of people tried it but they just found a marginally QA-ed bug-fest for the first couple of years which was clearly designed with the top priority of providing Google's ad sales team with tons of data to compete with Facebook ads and building a quality product seen as a cost of getting that data rather than the actual goal.
redwood 13y ago
Many hated it and left the company because of it.

nostromo 13y ago

It's a much better product than Facebook. But a better social product means nothing without an active network of users.

Geee 13y ago
Better in what way? G+ has confusing and horrible interface, it's slow, and keeps asking me to import friends every single time I open up the page. That's not 'better product' in my opinion.
- cromwellian 13y ago
  Better photos experience, better media embedding, better commenting (until Facebook later copied G+), better search, simpler privacy control system, better notification drop down, better mobile app, etc Asking to import and nag dialogues, I agree. They need to stop that.
- wyclif 13y ago
  Compared to Facebook, it's beautifully designed.
  - dredmorbius 13y ago
    That ... actually makes me wince a bit. For the Facebookers. http://stylebot.me/styles/2446 http://stylebot.me/styles/2446 That's what it took for me to be able to tolerate the Plus.
acdha 13y ago
> It's a much better product than Facebook. It's slow and buggy (i.e. it jerks painfully while scrolling on modern touch devices, it's sluggish on the desktop even in Chrome and they broke spacebar scrolling!), the photo upload experience doesn't work as reliably, search is embarrassing for Google and the timeline still doesn't do basic things like clustering shares of the same item or sorting based on what you've found interesting. When Google can't compete with Facebook on technical quality, you know it's because of a management decision rather than lack of technical resources. > But a better social product means nothing without an active network of users. Lots of people tried it but they just found a marginally QA-ed bug-fest for the first couple of years which was clearly designed with the top priority of providing Google's ad sales team with tons of data to compete with Facebook ads and building a quality product seen as a cost of getting that data rather than the actual goal.

redwood 13y ago

Many hated it and left the company because of it.