Not to mention that it's a chunk of shiat, that doesn't help either.

Doesn't look like it should, but google+ loads pretty slow on dialup.

On one hand, google+ sucks.

On the other hand, google+ will end up being the glue that holds all of google products together... instead of a list of Docs collaborators and a list of Gmail contacts, you'll have "Circles" that apply to either/both. "Hangout" become an integral part of google talk even if you never visit plus.google.com. So, it'll streamline the parts of Google that don't suck even if you never use the crappy Facebooky part of it.

Does this mean I can finally break out my Harry Manassas name?

Still no fully functional API, though. So there's that....

All current social media sites blow. Their time is limited. Sooner or later they will all be rendered obsolete by an open social media architecture standard.

As Google+ chief architect Yonatan Zunger wrote in a Google+ post, "It is indeed important to have a name-based service rather than a handle-based service. This isn't a matter of functionality so much as of community." Think of the difference, Zunger points out, of interactions between someone with the user name "Mary Smith" as opposed to "captaincrunch42."

Um. None except for giggling.

Think of the difference between a stalker and the victim he has a restraining order on, and the ability for the stalker to find and murder his victim using a name-based service.

A name is just the handle you were given when you were born that conforms to the naming convention of of *completelyrandom* *usually the family name*

circle me.


/you'll probably regret it!

Epicedion: Say what you will about Google+, but at least it isn't Facebook.

That's like comparing Stalin to Hitler... "Say what you will about Stalin, at least he wasn't racist."

fluffy2097: Epicedion: Say what you will about Google+, but at least it isn't Facebook.

That's like comparing Stalin to Hitler... "Say what you will about Stalin, at least he wasn't racist."

That's surprising. I'd heard that most Caucasians from Georgia in that time were racists.

They just want to be able to say "This online persona is also this legal entity"

/I can`t possibly think why...

This About That: It's not easy looking for a replacement for gmail, but it has to be done.

Look, I NEVER had a problem with e-mail, but everyon went to f-mail because it was sooo much better. Then all the cool kids jumped over to g-mail, I still don't see the improvement between f-mail and g-mail, much less any improvement between e-mail and g-mail. Now you all want to look for a replacement for g-mail? Call me crazy, but I have a feeling it's going to be called h-mail, or for the real progressive hipsters out there, iMail.

Me, I'll just stick with plain old e-mail.

FastJeff: Doesn't look like it should, but google+ loads pretty slow on dialup.

...said the aplty named FastJeff.

ThatGuyGreg: No, they aren't.

Yeah they are. i've seen plenty of G+ accounts with obviously fake names.

i think they should reject fake names because it's the only thing that makes social networking sites USEFUL. Facebook is useful because the person i'm looking for used their real name, so i've actually FOUND that person.

If i want a forum with anonymous farktards i'll go to fark or slashdot.

Epicedion: Say what you will about Google+, but at least it isn't Facebook.



/oblig
//my google+ account looks like the tumbleweed pic

My Google+ account is there just to piss off Facebook.

I've been using a pseudonym since day 1. And i've been posting comments to Googlers since then too, so i haven't exactly been flying under the radar.

"Think of the difference, Zunger points out, of interactions between someone with the user name 'Mary Smith' as opposed to 'captaincrunch42.'"

I dunno. Mary may be able to send BIE, but having John Draper in a circle with me could have more geek street cred.

Epicedion: Say what you will about Google+, but at least it isn't Facebook.



I think the reason people don't use Google + nor will they use any other new thing that works like Facebook is that most people are already on Facebook and don't want to have to build yet another social media presence with the friends and the things etc. Also all their friends are already on Facebook. Are people going to use peer pressure to switch services like they used to get people onto Facebook initially? No.

Do they allow corporate names?

Many could easily argue that they are more famous under their handle on World of Warcraft than their given name.

So Gmail should let you open a G+ account under your WOW name if you've made level 60 or something, right?

Gig103: Hey Google, if you have to resort to forcing new users to sign up (new window) for your service, maybe it isn't destined for greatness.

So....will I be able to sign up as PAVaginaDestroyer or not? Thank god I already created my PAAnusDestoryer gmail account last year.

I got banned from Google+ early on when they flagged my pseudonym, so I changed my name.

I guess they didn't believe me when I told them my real name was "Sluthoe Whorebiscuit, Esq."

Comments in an an online article mentioned that if you put a birthday under 18, you would not have to join G+.

Another mentioned that would keep you from viewing some YouTube content.

So I wonder if setting one's birthday to 17 years+364 days ago will still let you opt out, yet let you use it for a 18+ sign-on in a few days.

/maybe I'll try it next time I need a throwaway email

/wish they'd stop pestering me for a mobile number. I have my mobile account set for no texting in or out anyway.

Say what you will about Google+ but I've found that it's a haven for all levels of photographers. It seems to have attracted a more professional element, over Facebook.

YMMV
/519 in my circles and counting.

fluffy2097: As Google+ chief architect Yonatan Zunger wrote in a Google+ post, "It is indeed important to have a name-based service rather than a handle-based service. This isn't a matter of functionality so much as of community." Think of the difference, Zunger points out, of interactions between someone with the user name "Mary Smith" as opposed to "captaincrunch42."

Um. None except for giggling.

Think of the difference between a stalker and the victim he has a restraining order on, and the ability for the stalker to find and murder his victim using a name-based service.

A name is just the handle you were given when you were born that conforms to the naming convention of of *completelyrandom* *usually the family name*

That and the fact that John Draper is a lot less well known of a name than "Captain Crunch", for starters.

Demise: Say what you will about Google+ but I've found that it's a haven for all levels of photographers. It seems to have attracted a more professional element, over Facebook.

YMMV
/519 in my circles and counting.

And Tabletop RPGers too. Both pros and fans (though the line is usually blurred) are interacting a lot daily causing my feed to be extra busy. Also, some organizations post interesting stuff like NASA.

FastJeff: Doesn't look like it should, but google+ loads pretty slow on dialup.

Everything loads slow on dial up.

I dont understand why people are biatching about this but not about facebook? This is easier to use and you can restrict it easier without having to go through 3 different selections.

brigid_fitch: ThatGuyGreg: No, they aren't.

Really? I've had an account for a few months under a pseudonym and it's never been flagged.

Me too, helps that my email account is also under that name.

I has one but the only time I see it is when I want to muck around in YouTube.

Fine, from now on I'm Long Dick Johnson

Demise: Say what you will about Google+ but I've found that it's a haven for all levels of photographers. It seems to have attracted a more professional element, over Facebook.

That's probably because Google integrated PicasaWeb into Google+ from the beginning.

Google+? Is that thing still around?

brigid_fitch: Really? I've had an account for a few months years under a pseudonym and it's never been flagged.

/it offered all my pseudonym email accts plus accounts after a while (rejecting them before as it was in beta stage) as I was logging into them

/yes they're all forwarded to one; for diff picasa collections, which has been around for like a decade

I like Google+ quite a bit more than Facebook....


On the other hand it's probably because Facebook is a patchwork of hundred of people I don't give a shiat about that friended me over the past decade, while Google+ is a much smaller mix of people I have (often) never met and WANT to interact with. Thirty people on G+ provide more worthy content than 400 FBers.

No matter what Google does, Plus will not get big until people choose to leave Facebook because of something Facebook does. Considering how often Facebook makes horrible changes, it's only a matter of time really.

SacriliciousBeerSwiller: All current social media sites blow. Their time is limited. Sooner or later they will all be rendered obsolete by an open social media architecture standard.

....a city?