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What do you all think? Will it turn out to be a big thing? Should I get an account? I am thinking about it.

How does it work? Do you have an account already, and if so, how are you finding it?

I like Facebook better, despite all the annoying changes they've done lately. Google + had a major goof up in the beginning where they took down the accounts of anyone they thought was using a "fake" name, including lots of people who weren't. They disbarred them from all google services including Gmail. I wouldn't want to take a chance on that happening. Google has too much of a reach in our lives IMO already.

Interesting perspective...

How much power do we give one company...

I like it... mmm...

I'm tempted to start using google + I like the idea of getting a headstart and learning how it works before the majority of people start to use it...

mmm It is interesting though, not so sure how many people to add. are the groups (circles) all excluding, People can only see friends in that circle...?

That would be good, if that worked... Meaning can add lots of people to different circles, keeping family, work and friends separate. As I see should be.

The only way it will gain popularity is when it is tied in with everyone's Google account by default. If you use Android you will be signed in all the time. People won't move over from Facebook themselves. Humans are creatures of habit and Google know this.

Well I have joined now and I am signed in all the time, it is tied in with my gmail, and I also have igoogle as my homepage so Google+ is always signed in and shown at the top left corner. I like it so far, it seems cosier than facebook and more intimate, it seems easier to make groups and have conversations with selected people instead of the mad soup of facebook. But it will probably take a lot to get everyone on FB to switch over.

Most people don't turn their smartphone off. Also Google+ will track your location via gps by default. Infact your Google account already does this on Android. Not maliciously rather to help with localizations etc. Just more reasons for sugartown to get scared.

I have an account

*tumbleweed rolls past*

I actually like google+ more then I do facebook.

Well, google somehow knows my age, so I can't sign up for google+.

What short memories people have.

It's a mistake to lump a social service like Facebook into that behaviour pattern. It is a 'cool place' to be seen and hang out as a result as long as the cool kids go there everything will be fine but when all the cool kids leave to join a new more exclusive place and then start publicly ridiculing Facebook people will switch to that alternative free service.

Don't forget that Murdoch paid $580 million for MySpace which is currently losing him $180 million per year and he is rumoured to have just sold it for $35 million...


Google got it right when they rolled out gmail by making it exclusive and invite only, it generate a lot of buzz and hype and made it the 'must have' email address for all cool people. Their ability to tie in search & social & shopping data (something FB can't do) makes it a far, far more attractive prospect to advertisers, if FB 'lose the cool' (already happening) and lose the advertising advantage they are left with horrendous costs and no revenue, just like MySpace was.

I set my phone to ask permission before making packet-data connections, but connect to wireless automatically. Now I can browse the web and do email over the wireless - until I receive a Facebook update, or open a Facebook page, when the phone asks permission to make a packet-data call.

I can not see anything in the email or the webpage markup that would cause this, but somehow they (Facebook etc) do have control over smartphones, presumably to ask for GPS etc.

Well, I have been on it for 5 days now, and it is nearly as eventful as my Facebook in terms of things happening on it. On the other hand that doesnt say very much about my facebook activity.... : / I only have 37 friends. Plus 2 people unfriended me last week. I was a bit taken aback but then when I looked in my list I couldnt figure out who they were.... : ?

Anyway, I think if google+ gets the numbers it will take off. It is pretty plain now but they are working on features. One thing I like about it is I can write inane things such as what I cooked for dinner, I would never put that on Facebook but on G+ I know only a few people would be exposed to such trivia.

I dont know if G+ will be any different than facebook in terms of privacy and other problems. I kind of think that in 20 years time, these companies will have probably taken over our brains anyway, they will probably find some way to get us to insert sillicone chips in our ears and then we will end up as advertising space for the 6 gigantic global corporations that have taken over all the smaller companies, and we will do nothing else but mindlessly buy their products, like ants.

Or maybe that is a very cynical view of the future ... anyway I think people need to be careful how much power we give large corporations over our lives, our buying habits and our personal information....

hehe pretty much the same here. not much happens on Google+

I have one friend who's decided to ditch FB and use G+ exclusively. My feed is basically composed of everything she posts.

Yes it is quiet on G+, it is not exactly tumbleweed territory, I have 11 friends and they put stuff up from time to time. 2 new items have come up in the last hour. I guess I am in the fortunate position of not having a large FB friends list so the difference between the traffic on my G+ and on my FB is not very big...

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i like the idea of focus groups and creating one around the future and what we need to get there.