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Amick · Post by **Amick** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:05 pm

It's boring yo...

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:32 pm

why would anyone need this when EVERYONE is on facebook, even randoms I met overseas and all have added me to facebook... why would I use this limited version of something which is essentially the same thing?

I agree facebook needs some competition, but hey, don't see it being replaced any time soon tbh

Kaiproject · Post by **Kaiproject** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:56 pm

yeah 'course it won't.
g+ be better for networking, extended friends/'circles'/acquaintances, + integrated with gmail, gmail chat etc on mobile too. pretty handy.
but yeah hardly using it...

quiet roar · Post by **quiet roar** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:53 pm

deviant wrote:why would anyone need facebook

I keep asking myself the same thing.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:04 pm

you can't argue with the power of facebook rob

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:18 pm

i don't get it either. why bother changing over. then again there was myspace which is now dead-ish because everyone jumped ship to facebook. who knows?

Kaiproject · Post by **Kaiproject** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:24 pm

yep, everything dies.
facebook is a messy POS

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:09 pm

Kaiproject wrote:yep, everything dies.

like breaks?

quiet roar · Post by **quiet roar** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:44 pm

deviant wrote:you can't argue with the power of facebook rob

Not denying how huge it is, Dan - I just don't get it.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:17 pm

like everything else in life I'll snob it off until it simply cant be ignored anymore and then I'll become its biggest advocate much to everyone's irritation.

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:32 pm

youthful_implants wrote:like everything else in life I'll snob it off until it simply cant be ignored anymore and then I'll become its biggest advocate much to everyone's irritation.

like when you got the herpes?

Andrez · Post by **Andrez** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 8:58 am

Lizkins wrote:i don't get it either. why bother changing over. then again there was myspace which is now dead-ish because everyone jumped ship to facebook. who knows?

That's true. I'm on G+ now, but barely motivated. I think I have social network fatigue!

Post by **huge** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:21 am

you guys need to follow some interesting people. it's not facebook.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:25 am

andy_hoffman wrote:
youthful_implants wrote:like everything else in life I'll snob it off until it simply cant be ignored anymore and then I'll become its biggest advocate much to everyone's irritation.
like when you got the herpes?

exactly.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:25 am

youthful_implants wrote:like everything else in life I'll snob it off until it simply cant be ignored anymore and then I'll become its biggest advocate much to everyone's irritation.

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:15 am

Google has put a whole lot of research into how social networks in real life operate, and implemented it as the circles feature - you can see a nice slide show about it here: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-re ... network-v2

At the moment there are only(!) 20 million people on there (in less than 3 weeks), so as far as facebook interactions go it's not quite there, but for following people like on twitter it's pretty good. Some high profile tech nerds and pundits are already there and actively posting - Linus Torvalds, Guido Van Rossum (Creator of python), Kevin Rose (Founder of Digg), Ashton Kutcher etc

It also looks like they might be well placed to take a bit of the audience away from sites like linkedin, quora etc.

Its still early days yet, but will be interesting to see how it pans out. I'm waiting to hear on the features they are developing for businesses and what the api should look like. Facebook is pretty abysmal for developing on imo (Poor documentation, constantly changing apis), so it should be good to see what google comes up with here.

Also, facebook's new chat bar sucks major balls. Someone should kill it with fire.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:44 am

apophenian wrote:Also, facebook's new chat bar sucks major balls. Someone should kill it with fire.

yes, really really shit

Andrez wrote:That's true. I'm on G+ now, but barely motivated. I think I have social network fatigue!

same, a whole new social network... just can't be fucked more than anything really

nic · Post by **nic** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:02 pm

its too hard too use
nothing is happening
i think i will be the first to denounce and quit G+

Post by **fooishbar** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:21 pm

nic wrote:its too hard too use
nothing is happening
i think i will be the first to denounce and quit G+

soz, i already quit it a couple of weeks back. ahead of the curve.

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:47 pm

nic wrote:its too hard too use
nothing is happening
i think i will be the first to denounce and quit G+

Post by **fooishbar** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:10 pm

apophenian wrote:Google has put a whole lot of research into how social networks in real life operate, and implemented it as the circles feature - you can see a nice slide show about it here: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-re ... network-v2

eh, the main point of google+ right now seems to be to make loads of circles ('people i would say hi to but not really much more but i don't mind if they see random bullshit i post', 'people i'd hang out with but are still friends with someone i don't speak to so it's a bit awkward there') and ocd everyone you know into an overlapping collection of 73 circles. tbh i'd rather actually talk to people (where g+ falls flat) than do that.

CoB · Post by **CoB** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 10:34 am

youthful_implants wrote:like everything else in life I'll snob it off until it simply cant be ignored anymore and then I'll become its biggest advocate much to everyone's irritation.

I am the same hey.
it took me ages to even get facebook
and then more ages to actually use it.

though once it starts...

Post by **system** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 1:15 pm

first off, i'd note that g+ is in beta. a lot of the usability issues are still being ironed out. things have changed quite a bit since it launched ~3 weeks ago.

secondly, the quality of interaction i've had (conversations, etc) far outweigh those that i've seen on twitter (140 char arguably limit or preclude discussion) or facebook (aka the socially acceptable myspace). if anything, it's closer to a more modern version of livejournal.

i'd say give it a go. anything's got to be better than facebook imo.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:06 pm

yeh facebook is shitting me quite a bit lately, enough that I barely use it except when obscenely bored.

Kaiproject · Post by **Kaiproject** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 2:15 pm

mrj wrote:yeh facebook is shitting me quite a bit lately, enough that I barely use it except when obscenely bored.

quiet roar · Post by **quiet roar** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 3:16 pm

mrj wrote:yeh facebook is shitting me quite a bit lately, enough that I barely use it except when obscenely bored.

Just like melbournebeats.com

nic · Post by **nic** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:47 pm

:S

there are some grate conversations here though..........

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:08 pm

youthful_implants wrote:like everything else in life I'll snob it off until it simply cant be ignored anymore and then I'll become its biggest advocate much to everyone's irritation.

thats what i was like with the iphone.

google + is boring so far. and ugly.

i just joined this site - great for people into photography/images rather than fml posts and 'i like hugging' and 'you are an idiot if you dont come to my gig' posts.

http://thinng.com/

let me know if anyone wants an invite.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:33 pm

ghetto kitty wrote:
youthful_implants wrote:like everything else in life I'll snob it off until it simply cant be ignored anymore and then I'll become its biggest advocate much to everyone's irritation.
thats what i was like with the iphone.

google + is boring so far. and ugly.

i just joined this site - great for people into photography/images rather than fml posts and 'i like hugging' and 'you are an idiot if you dont come to my gig' posts.

http://thinng.com/

let me know if anyone wants an invite.

thats my friend Stu's site. Its quite rad.

My profile is thinnger

Post by **huge** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 5:45 pm

is like www.pinterest.com danger if hungry

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:12 pm

500px.com/photos is also ace

(and foodgawker.com is utter danger, but if i see one more picture of kale chips someone made from their csa basket, there's going to be some serious junkpunching a gwarn)

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:33 pm

mrj wrote:
ghetto kitty wrote:
youthful_implants wrote:like everything else in life I'll snob it off until it simply cant be ignored anymore and then I'll become its biggest advocate much to everyone's irritation.
thats what i was like with the iphone.

google + is boring so far. and ugly.

i just joined this site - great for people into photography/images rather than fml posts and 'i like hugging' and 'you are an idiot if you dont come to my gig' posts.

http://thinng.com/

let me know if anyone wants an invite.
thats my friend Stu's site. Its quite rad.

My profile is thinnger

sweet jman! following yououou

ADD_Boy · Post by **ADD_Boy** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:38 pm

saw this on FB the other night.. Can't recall who posted it..

haha!!

quick · Post by **quick** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:03 pm

that is funny

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:52 am

googoor prerrrr

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 12:09 am

deviant wrote:
apophenian wrote:Also, facebook's new chat bar sucks major balls. Someone should kill it with fire.
yes, really really shit

If it's annoying you, just install this script and it replaces it with old school style chat

Works really well!

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/107159

quick · Post by **quick** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:07 am

cheers

andy_hoffman · Post by **andy_hoffman** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:46 am

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:47 am

andy_hoffman wrote:

Holy shit, is that a massive 3D reach around?

Kaiproject · Post by **Kaiproject** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:53 pm

not sure if this link works but here's my + page if anyone wants ot add me to an MBCircle or somehting

https://plus.google.com/115397706136961458399/

Flash · Post by **Flash** » Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:37 am