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KMD

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« on: July 11, 2011, 11:42:12 PM »
Apparently, theres a lot of noise about http://www.google.com/intl/en-US/+/demo/ <<< a new social networking site: Google+

To those of you who use social networking sites (or even those who dont), what do you think? It's still in beta-testing phase, but some people predict it could become HUGE super fast and PWN Facebook, just from namesake. (http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gross-google-will-get-100-million-users-2011-7)

 Personally, i've been slipping out of the scene. I deleted my Facebook recently when I realized that I totally don't care about what anybody else is doing.
     I think social networking sites as a whole are going to suffer a sharp decline in the next 2 or 3 years. Maybe not right away, but unexpectedly, I think a lot of people will just lose interest. Maybe some people will freak out and call it a "social internet bust" or something.

      I don't know about Google+. Even if it has more cool features and the trademark ease and simplicity of a Google product, I seriously doubt that it could convince hundreds of millions of people to switch.
       And Facebook has a different founding history. Essentially, one underdog College Geek (practically a household name) who never intended on creating a massive internet corporation with the worlds most powerful social networking site. Just a way to replicate the social college experience online.
       Google is different. The creator and owner isn't one college kid a lot of people could relate to, it's a faceless company-from-the-future here to own the internet, who pretends to be your best friend but sells your soul to advertisers, without you knowing. At least that's kind of how I see it.
    I hate to make this sound like a paranoid anti-Google rant. But over the last few months I've realized just how much property on the virtual-front they actually own. Google search/docs/maps/earth, Gmail, Chrome (and Chromebook), Sketchup, Youtube, Android, Picasa and others. I guess paranoia is the reason I switched from Chrome browser to Opera (which is underrated).

Anyway, what are your thoughts on Google+, the company in General, the inevitable life takeover by our Googillian overlords from the future etc?

(P.S. The Social Network is an amazing movie that I recommend to all of you. I really had low hopes for it, a "movie about facebook" sounded very stupid, but I was shocked at how good it was. And I think that pre-doubt is why a lot of my friends won't see it. One of my favorites Ever.)
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Re: Google+
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2011, 12:47:21 AM »
Quote from: KMD on July 11, 2011, 11:42:12 PM
Personally, i've been slipping out of the scene. I deleted my Facebook recently when I realized that I totally don't care about what anybody else is doing.

What he said.

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Re: Google+
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2011, 04:33:42 AM »
I joined Google+ since a bunch of my real life friends are on it.

And they are currently running it like they did Gmail originally. You need to be invited by a current member to join since it's still in Beta from what I understand.

But I don't spend much time on social networking sites. I'm kind of busy doing other things.
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Re: Google+
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2011, 03:57:06 AM »
I'm very interested to try. I'm amazed I haven't gotten an invite, I'm on every google dev project out there.
I think I must have pissed them off or something.

Honestly, the only reason I keep up on facebook is because my friends tend to share their updates there. A friend of mine just became a level designer at Vigil, so I got to think about how I'm wasting my life writing code for boring applications while my friend has his dream job.

On second thought, screw facebook.
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Re: Google+
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2011, 12:32:30 AM »
Quote from: Solwyn on July 13, 2011, 03:57:06 AM
I'm very interested to try. I'm amazed I haven't gotten an invite
Fixed.. Check your mail..
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Re: Google+
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2011, 04:19:20 PM »
Sweet.

Gotta say I'm liking it better than facebook. By default privacy is maxed, kind of the opposite of FB.

Of course I think it just took that from my google settings.
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Re: Google+
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2011, 02:03:09 AM »
Quote from: KMD on July 11, 2011, 11:42:12 PM
Personally, i've been slipping out of the scene. I deleted my Facebook recently when I realized that I totally don't care about what anybody else is doing.


my "real" fb is half full of people who update for the sake of updating and people who update for the attention. i half keep it because there are one of two people that i do care about keeping in contact with and then there are relatives that i wouldnt talk to otherwise. i've got two fake accounts to play games on, my friend lists on both are filled with batman characters and other roleplayers.

i dont know if i'll ever go to google+, i just dont think i'm going to want another thing to keep up with. i'm trying to get myself into the linkedin thing, but i dont want to have another thing that i have to check at least once a week. i've stopped reading a good dozen web comics over the years just for the fact that i dont want to keep up with them.

i'm starting to feel old. there's just too much to keep up with.
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