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> Google should be employing a strategy of invisible > control over how people interact, [...] They should be > quietly creating and controlling channels of
by jmillikin 12y ago
> Google should be employing a strategy of invisible
> control over how people interact, [...] They should be
> quietly creating and controlling channels of
> communication that I cannot live without.
Wait, what? You don't mind a third party controlling how you interact, but you hate being told about it?
- sliverstorm 12y agoIt sounds to me more like, "Make it so good it's indispensable to me, rather than trying to force me to use it"
- jmillikin 12y agoUsing Google doesn't require an account of any kind, and a Google+ account is only required for social features such as posting comments or sharing links. The launch state of Google+ provided an extremely hostile experience due to policies such as "one social identity per account" and "use a government-approved non-ethnic name", but these issues were resolved years ago with the Pages feature.