ha ha. i want to use google+ so bad, i hate facebook. but nobody seems to want to hang out there except one IT dork who posts a bunch of IT-dork stuff. and it's google, so you know they'll steal any bit of data you put on there.

at least the severs are up and running...
unlike some other website i know.

The reason I don't like Google+ is because the entire membership consists of all the douchers who made a big scene out of leaving facebook behind because of some stupid UI change. I thought the narcissism on facebook was bad until I put a bunch of pretentious IT guys in my circles. Holy shiat. No thanks.

zabbers: ha ha. i want to use google+ so bad, i hate facebook. but nobody seems to want to hang out there except one IT dork who posts a bunch of IT-dork stuff. and it's google, so you know they'll steal any bit of data you put on there.

I post IT-related stuff because the only people that I'm friends with on Google+ are IT people. Unless you're complaining about me? (Do I know you?)

Facebook's new "Timeline" view is an exploding rainbow of narcissism and cluttered visual design, and I'll probably be using that site less once I'm forced to "upgrade" to it.

I hope some more of my friends will make the transition to Google+ aka Facebook Classic when that happens, as I'm currently tired of reading the same posts from the same ten geeky friends every day there.

Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day are probably ecstatic.

Has Google+ made it so the posts are listed based on when the post itself was made, rather than whenever a new comment is made? That, more than anything else, is the one thing keeping me from using Google+.

zabbers: ha ha. i want to use google+ so bad, i hate facebook. but nobody seems to want to hang out there except one IT dork who posts a bunch of IT-dork stuff. and it's google, so you know they'll steal any bit of data you put on there.

I deleted that guy. My whole feed was him posting IT stuff and Legos.

that is one serious sausagefest going on right over there

armanox: zabbers: ha ha. i want to use google+ so bad, i hate facebook. but nobody seems to want to hang out there except one IT dork who posts a bunch of IT-dork stuff. and it's google, so you know they'll steal any bit of data you put on there.

I post IT-related stuff because the only people that I'm friends with on Google+ are IT people. Unless you're complaining about me? (Do I know you?)

That sounds familiar, maybe you gave me my google+ invite.

Meh, I'm just holding my spot on Google+ until the inevitable exodus begins in a year or so.

I really like the idea of "Circles." Yes, I know you can do it on Facebook, but I don't want to go back and sort out my hundred or so friends into "People I Like" and "People I Friended Just Because I Didn't Want to Be Mean But I Still Won't Talk To."

I will also make a Circle of "Conservatards" that I will be sure to include in any postings relating to the failings of the GOP come the election.

poot_rootbeer: Facebook's new "Timeline" view is an exploding rainbow of narcissism and cluttered visual design, and I'll probably be using that site less once I'm forced to "upgrade" to it.

I hope some more of my friends will make the transition to Google+ aka Facebook Classic when that happens, as I'm currently tired of reading the same posts from the same ten geeky friends every day there.

The timeline is my d day. The day I delete my facebook account. Been putting it off and that seems as good an excuse as any.

zabbers: so you know they'll steal any bit of data you put on there.

Oh look, it's this canard again.

TsukasaK: zabbers: so you know they'll steal any bit of data you put on there.

Oh look, it's this canard again.

I'll get outraged when the net result of all this spying is something other than being shown ads for computer stores instead of skirts.

/prefers G+ over FB

,,,,I prefer leaving the comfort and safety of my computer, losers.

/i'm a network technician and still don't care for G+
//i only like fb because it's a complete collection of my friends and an easy way to communicate with them. if you're on it enough to give a crap about the ui, then you need better things to do with your time.
///im out of canned air, this sand is hard to get out

Friendster, MyPlace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ ... I still don't get it. I'd rather watch one of the dogs scratch, way more interesting than most people's lives.

WI241TH: I just watched a Google+ commercial in which a girl moves a guy from her creepers circle to a few others and he ends up in her keeper circle. I'm not really sure who it was advertising to except creepers.

That ad showed that if you have a ski vacation house in Tahoe your creepy stalking vibes can be ignored by the girl that will eventually end up in a pit in the basement of your ski vacation house in Tahoe.

I'm waiting for the new ad "Google Plus, we're like Facebook only later. No this isn't a repeat from Microsoft from the last 20 years"

LarryDan43: The timeline is my d day. The day I delete my facebook account. Been putting it off and that seems as good an excuse as any.

Yea ... right ... whatever ... the fundamental problem with this line of thought is that you may leave facebook but all your non-techie family members, ex-coworkers, and 'friends' will still be on facebook.

/and one wonders how often you are on facebook to garner this sort of rage against the service

I've all but stopped using FB in favor of G+. The former being a cluttered mess. The latter being integrated into my gmail. But yeah it is somewhat of a ghost town.

Meh, I'm not sure I like the upcoming Timeline bullshiat on FB but I don't think it's enough to get all nerd rage-quit over. Unless it changes the feed for the worse, who cares. I almost never click on someones actual profile, and most people I know don't either. I just look through my feed.

Anybody know of a clever way to mass invite everyone on my facebook friends to g+? Preferrably a way that won't get me booted off the service?

/G+ is so superior it hurts
//cleaner and better organized

Oddly enough, G+ has somehow turned into my "follow a bunch of people whose content I enjoy" instead of friends. Like Wil Wheaton or the Bad Astronomer. I sort of like it that way, as G+ allows for much larger "statuses," so I get interesting stuff filling the stream. Although NASA needs to stop spamming updates like it's the end of the world.

I left Facebook after the most recent privacy changes, some time last year. I was tired of having to reset everything to how I wanted it. At least with Google +, once done it stays and I don't have to worry about them changing it every time they update the UI.

Plus now that Google + added volume controls for Circles, I have almost total control of what I makes it to my main screen without having to remove people from my circles for over posting.

I signed up for google+ when it was released but I haven't checked it in months because only 10% of my Facebook friends are there, and only 1 or 2 of them ever post there. Whenever I visit google+ pages I see "this user hasn't shared anything with you," which makes me wonder whether that person just doesn't use google+, or whether they use it but they've exiled me to some "awkward friends" circle, but either way it makes me want to use google+ even less.

hawcian: NASA needs to stop spamming updates like it's the end of the world.

Sounds like you're going to like the new slider feature.

I also like it, but would much prefer what someone else mentioned, a toggle to get the posts ordered in time of POST, not time of last COMMENT.

bush: The reason I don't like Google+ is because the entire membership consists of all the douchers who made a big scene out of leaving facebook behind because of some stupid UI change. I thought the narcissism on facebook was bad until I put a bunch of pretentious IT guys in my circles. Holy shiat. No thanks.

Couldn't have summed it up better myself.

I created a Google+ account but I've only gone on it about 5 times. I use the FB news feed mainly just as another way to catch up on articles from various websites. I rarely check my own profile so I don't really care about the timeline at all, although I think it does actually look kind of sharp. Doubt I'll ever switch from FB to Google+.

Yotto: hawcian: NASA needs to stop spamming updates like it's the end of the world.

Sounds like you're going to like the new slider feature.

I also like it, but would much prefer what someone else mentioned, a toggle to get the posts ordered in time of POST, not time of last COMMENT.

I do, but unfortunately it's only for groups, not for individual accounts. So now NASA gets its own circle I guess.

It sure would have been nice if Google would have waited until they could handle a full on debut instead of the stupid limited invitation thing. Half the people I tried to get to switch over to G+ couldn't sign up.

You can't make a FB killer by having new accounts trickle in over time. It's all at once or you're dead.

underwhere: It sure would have been nice if Google would have waited until they could handle a full on debut instead of the stupid limited invitation thing. Half the people I tried to get to switch over to G+ couldn't sign up.

You can't make a FB killer by having new accounts trickle in over time. It's all at once or you're dead.

You obviously don't understand this thing called "server load".

//If everyone picked up their phone simultaneously, the phone system would implode. If everyone used their house's full power draw at the same time, the power system would fail. You trickle it up - explosive web demand results in dead servers.

Lexx: underwhere: It sure would have been nice if Google would have waited until they could handle a full on debut instead of the stupid limited invitation thing. Half the people I tried to get to switch over to G+ couldn't sign up.

You can't make a FB killer by having new accounts trickle in over time. It's all at once or you're dead.

You obviously don't understand this thing called "server load".

//If everyone picked up their phone simultaneously, the phone system would implode. If everyone used their house's full power draw at the same time, the power system would fail. You trickle it up - explosive web demand results in dead servers.

No. I completely understand that concept. But come on, this is Google. I'm pretty sure they could have hooked up an extra server or two for the debut or maybe let people submit all the necessary information to set up an account which would then get processed as things slowed down.

All I'm saying is that most people I know who tried to sign up couldn't and ended up forgetting all about it.

The problem G+ faces is that the worth of Facebook or Twitter or whatever is pretty much in your friends. It doesn't matter if Google or Microsoft or whoever comes up with a better Facebook - you can go there, but it won't be a replacement for your Facebook until the bulk of your friends are there, too. What happens is that Google unveils G+, lots of people sign up but almost nobody acquires critical friend mass, and dump it because they're missing on stuff happening on Facebook. Meanwhile, Facebook copies over the stuff they find worthwhile from G+. Advantage: Zuckerberg.

I hate all these damn websites that get between me and my friends. I prefer to actually be in the physical environment that my friends are in. When I can`t I send an email, text or talk on the phone.

Get off my lawn.

underwhere: Lexx: underwhere: It sure would have been nice if Google would have waited until they could handle a full on debut instead of the stupid limited invitation thing. Half the people I tried to get to switch over to G+ couldn't sign up.

You can't make a FB killer by having new accounts trickle in over time. It's all at once or you're dead.

You obviously don't understand this thing called "server load".

//If everyone picked up their phone simultaneously, the phone system would implode. If everyone used their house's full power draw at the same time, the power system would fail. You trickle it up - explosive web demand results in dead servers.

No. I completely understand that concept. But come on, this is Google. I'm pretty sure they could have hooked up an extra server or two for the debut or maybe let people submit all the necessary information to set up an account which would then get processed as things slowed down.

All I'm saying is that most people I know who tried to sign up couldn't and ended up forgetting all about it.

It`s not like google have enough servers or anything. I can totally see, if you have enough servers to cope with an entire planets worth of searches returning results in real time, how a few signups would be a problem...

You guys really have no imagination at all. Google+ won't succeed because it is better than facebook (though it unquestionably is). It will succeed because Google controls the world's most popular search engine, the world's most popular web browser and the world's most popular smartphone OS (not to mention the world's third most popular email provider). In addition, Google has a set of online productivity tools (calendar, docs, reader, tasks, etc) that facebook can't come close to touching.

Facebook has one thing and one thing only: people. Remember AOL? AOL had people. Remember MySpace? MySpace had people. People move.

Google+ will overtake facebook just as Android has overtaken iOS.