Raven Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Who wants an invite? I will add you to a special Serenes Forest circle I made, just for you lot. On the topic of G+, what are your thoughts on it? It's still in Beta, but I've already had a laugh on it with my friends back home in Wales via its Hangouts feature. I'm liking it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zanarkin Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Is it a chat or something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celice Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 (edited) It's supposed to be a counter-part to Facebook. I'm not too interested personally, as I don't think any of my friends are moving on to this, or even know what it is. Edited July 11, 2011 by Celice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted July 11, 2011 Author Share Posted July 11, 2011 It's basically a social network: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-google-plus-2011-6 When G+ leaves Beta and I have more friends using it, I'll probably use it over Facebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inactive Account Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 It looks pretty nice to me so far. Only change I'd make so far is allowing privacy settings for gender, I don't really fancy broadcasting it to the world. The whole Circles deal is pretty neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 If my friends seem to be indicating that G+ is a trend most people are following, I will consider following it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenrir Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Facebook isn't very good these days, I could use a change. When this leaves beta i will gladly give it a spin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superbus Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 I have a Google+ account. Basically, it's Facebook for those that hate Facebook. It's OK, though I'm a bit social networked-out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inactive Account Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Yeah, that's pretty much an accurate summary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Yeah, that's pretty much an accurate summary. It is true it's all I really wanted, since I specifically said I wanted to destroy facebook. But I wanted other people to join it, not myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inactive Account Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 (edited) So we should be able to set privacy settings on gender sometime this week. Also PRONOUNS. They're going to implement pronoun selections. My day has been made. via Edited July 13, 2011 by Kiryn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenrir Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Yeah, that's pretty much an accurate summary. lol, thats win! i dont like wall posting at all, and a couple other things bug me on FB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted July 14, 2011 Share Posted July 14, 2011 So we should be able to set privacy settings on gender sometime this week. Also PRONOUNS. They're going to implement pronoun selections. My day has been made. via Aaaah, beautiful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legion Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Facebook's getting tedious. So Google+ is great so far. Haven't tried the Hangout feature yet so we'll have to give it a go sometime Shaun :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maki Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 I got invited into the beta, it's really great just as everyones says.... but I'm not sure. All my friends refuse to use it. I don't understand why, trying something doesn't hurt anybody...but whatever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 I got invited into the beta, it's really great just as everyones says.... but I'm not sure. All my friends refuse to use it. I don't understand why, trying something doesn't hurt anybody...but whatever. I dunno. I really should move on to the "next level" of social networking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaycoboram Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I don't like it its just a face knock off.. though I like the hangout thingy thats pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 Can't be arsed to make a new topic for such a small thing. I have 150 invites available to send to people. Here's the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragnell Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 So far I've been unimpressed by Google+. Granted I haven't tried a hangout, which is what everyone's been raving about, but Google+'s chat is significantly more tedious and less intuitive than facebook's. And given that chat is 90% of the reason I ever even get on facebook, that's a major bummer for me. I must admit, circles are a fantastic idea, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inactive Account Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 I really like circles, but the real names bit is getting increasingly ugly. If it gets much worse I may end up deleting my account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celice Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 How do the real names bit work? I used a fake name when setting up my google account and it seemed to liken the fake name well-enough when I went on the plus thingy :/ Someone flung out invites so I decided to set one up real quick. Then it was awfully empty. Then I never came back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inactive Account Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 (edited) It seems that at the moment, if your name doesn't look enough like a legal name to Google, or they get some other sort of clue that it isn't your legal name (doesn't appear to correlate with your gender, shared with a famous person, some non-European names), they suspend your account. For now, if you pick a pseudonym that still sounds like a name by their standards, you're probably okay, but there are a whole bunch of people who are legitimately harmed by this. From what my feed's been telling me, there is also talk of them intending to start requiring other verification. Which is creepy as hell, and if they do that I'm out of there forever. I really hope they start to listen to their users on this, though. They listened to their users when it was pointed out that forcing gender to be a publicly viewable field was problematic, it would be really nice if that weren't a fluke. Edited September 10, 2011 by Kiryn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celice Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Well, the thing is, this is a money-maker for Google. The more info you graciously offer them, the more pennies they make that you don't get. The more real information they can get out of you (without even trying), the greater their benefit. goYahoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inactive Account Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 (edited) I'm not sure what you're getting at. Nobody's offering extra information here; the conflict is coming from the fact that Google is demanding that users both give them and then make public (making it public is the big thing; if you had to sign up under your legal name but could use a pseudonym this would be less of a problem) more information than they'd agreed to when signing up for the service. The terms of service don't actually support a real names policy, so this is quite literally not what people signed up for. You also seems to be implying (correct me if I'm wrong) that Google makes money off your information (by selling it I guess?) They can't, legally, except within a narrow range of advertising crap that has nothing to do with real names. There's no profit to be made for making users display their legal names, and really probably profit to be lost for driving away the people who can't use the system under their real name. (I don't think it's realistic to say that this could kill the service, because there are plenty of people who feel safe and comfortable going by their legal name, but "we have enough of a userbase even if we marginalize people" isn't really a good excuse for a company with "don't be evil" among its stated values.) Because everyone knows me by my middle name rather than my first name, and possibly because of gender, I could probably get banned from the service if they start requiring verified legal names. If it gets to that point, I'll probably be long gone, though. Edit: Here's the actual policy that people signed up for: 13. Display NameTo help fight spam and prevent fake profiles, use the name your friends, family or co-workers usually call you. For example, if your full legal name is Charles Jones Jr. but you normally use Chuck Jones or Junior Jones, either of those would be acceptable. which is not what they're talking about enforcing. Edited September 10, 2011 by Kiryn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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