Google+ Is it the answer to Facebook?

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Betty

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]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

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.

[Morrigoon]

Good to be aware of:

[€uroMeinke]

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]

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

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

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]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

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]

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