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Moonliner 07-09-2011 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex (Post 349359)
But on the other hand is there a bit of dissonance in worrying about assimilation by Google on Facebook?

Other than search, Facebook is just as interested in owning and knowing everything about you.

Google+ wants to gather as much information as possible about me in order to pimp it out to corporations.

Facebook wants to gather as much information as possible about me in order to pimp it out to corporations and share it with my mother, brother, relatives, friends, etc...

To me that makes one annoying and the other inherently evil.

Betty 07-09-2011 07:31 AM

Still nothing. Maybe you need my real name to go with the email address? (and does that email address have my real name on it?) Hmmmm.

Moonliner 07-09-2011 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Betty (Post 349377)
Still nothing. Maybe you need my real name to go with the email address? (and does that email address have my real name on it?) Hmmmm.

There have been reports of G+ invites getting sent to spam. Have you checked there?

If you PM me an email I'll try sending you one as well.

Betty 07-09-2011 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 349380)
There have been reports of G+ invites getting sent to spam. Have you checked there?

If you PM me an email I'll try sending you one as well.

It's a gmail addy so I wouldn't think they would send themselves to spam. But I'll check and send you a PM. Thanks for giving it the ol college try. :cheers:

Morrigoon 07-11-2011 10:42 PM

Good to be aware of:


€uroMeinke 07-12-2011 10:37 AM

I'm wondering if G+ will actually be a Twitter killer for me instead of a Facebook kiler. It seems it still has a ways to go to compete with Facebook, but when I look at how I use Twitter, a private more narrow collection of my friends, 80% of which are already on G+, Twitter already is seeming redundant.

Stan4dSteph 07-12-2011 11:01 AM

I don't have a convenient way to monitor G+, so I don't even know what's going on there.

€uroMeinke 07-12-2011 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph (Post 349464)
I don't have a convenient way to monitor G+, so I don't even know what's going on there.

I've linked their mobile web interface to my iphone and find it works particularly well for what it is. It's still not a fully integrated ap, but I used it to log in, create my account, build some circles, do text based posts and check on notifications.

innerSpaceman 07-12-2011 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke (Post 349462)
I'm wondering if G+ will actually be a Twitter killer for me instead of a Facebook kiler.

Wow, that's just what I was noticing. I just loaded up Twitter now, hours after checking Facebook and G+, and I've been doing that for days. I don't understand why - since, to me, Twitter and Facebook have entirely different purposes, while Facebook and G+ have entirely identical purposes.

Maybe it's just the novelty of G+, and the fact that I can't juggle 3 social networks - and would rather (temporarily) ditch Twitter rather than Facebook.


In any event, though - while everyone's jumping to check out Google+ - it seems to me it's already dying. I give it another month before it joins Wave in the Google Graveyard.

Morrigoon 07-12-2011 12:24 PM

I'm still not enamored. And I like Twitter for its ability to get companies' attention.


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