Mikuro
Crotchety UI Nitpicker
Is anyone using Google+ yet? I have an account, but haven't messed around with it too much yet. If anyone wants an invite, just PM me your email. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it needs to be a gmail address. Edit: Looks like I can't invite more people for now. Not sure why. *shrug*
Personally, I'm not thrilled with the idea of Google getting even more information about me, but....well, as long as Google keeps making the best products in their field, I'm probably going to keep using them. (Never thought I'd be using Chrome, but I am, and I'm no longer a two-browser man.)
Plus, its not like Facebook has my best interests at heart, either. It looks like Google is actually focusing on privacy here. Facebook keeps on changing the rules and making people, wittingly or not, share things with the whole world. Technically, Google+'s circles don't offer anything you CAN'T already do in Facebook, but in Facebook the relevant features are clumsy and not obvious, so nobody actually uses them that way. With Google+ I'd be less reluctant to add, for example, people I only know online, because I can just drop them in a circle and not share everything with them.
So, what do you think? Will Google+ be the new Facebook? Is Facebook already the new MySpace? Or perhaps the new AOL?
Personally, I'm not thrilled with the idea of Google getting even more information about me, but....well, as long as Google keeps making the best products in their field, I'm probably going to keep using them. (Never thought I'd be using Chrome, but I am, and I'm no longer a two-browser man.)
Plus, its not like Facebook has my best interests at heart, either. It looks like Google is actually focusing on privacy here. Facebook keeps on changing the rules and making people, wittingly or not, share things with the whole world. Technically, Google+'s circles don't offer anything you CAN'T already do in Facebook, but in Facebook the relevant features are clumsy and not obvious, so nobody actually uses them that way. With Google+ I'd be less reluctant to add, for example, people I only know online, because I can just drop them in a circle and not share everything with them.
So, what do you think? Will Google+ be the new Facebook? Is Facebook already the new MySpace? Or perhaps the new AOL?
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