Even Google is abandoning Google+ Google's failed social network Google+ has received another vote of no-confidence, this time from Google. As detailed on the Official Android Blog, gamers who want an account to record their feats will soon be offered “Gamer IDs”. As is usual, you can give yourself an avatar or upload a photo, see yourself scale leaderboards …
And scores of grammar nazis have just keeled over from massive heart attacks. This from a developer for whom English is likely the native language. Oh well, it's a living language (meaning that it is defined by all the morons who don't know how to speak it).
By default I stay away from all privacy-mining social platforms, so I gave Google+ a miss as soon as I heard about it. I never missed it.
Hard to say you don't miss it when you never used it. Same goes to the author of the article. G+ is very much alive with creative and open source people talking about real stuff. We left the morons over at facebook ;)
Remember, this has nothing to do with privacy since you're sharing the info in the first place....
"Seriously can't understand the downvoting (or your concern). Gmail, hangouts,... yes. But G+?"
My concern is that all Google products which require logging in, are part of the same family and the information which is gathered is all in the one profile. This is not good. I don't log into Google and I obfuscate my identity on a regular basis. I know I'm far from anonymous, and only a little bit private, but I don't put much effort into it either. Just enough to strike an acceptable balance between what I'd like and what I can get.
Hard to say you don't miss it when you never used it.
On the contrary, it's very easy not to miss something you've never used.
I think the authority on this point goes something like:
Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.
Actually it has only been necessary to have G+ to use the comment system, though despite announcing last year that they would be removing this requirement, Google still haven't done it.
Click on a thumb icon on a comment or try to enter a comment yourself and, surprise surprise, it STILL tries to sign you up, although the last time I checked, this seemed to be somewhat broken anyway (it asks what name you want to use then brings up a blank box where the G+ sign-up was - this can only have happened recently).
It's only one of so many ways that YouTube is Broken, and Google is the one responsible for breaking it. The worry is that they'll eventually replace G+ with something even more intrusive and broken.
To be honest, I find that YouTube comments being broken is a clear upgrade on what YouTube comments used to be. (see https://xkcd.com/202/ & https://xkcd.com/481/)
It's only one of so many ways that YouTube is Broken, and Google is the one responsible for breaking it. The worry is that they'll eventually replace G+ with something even more intrusive and broken.
What they should have done ... just add social networking to YouTube, where everyone was already signed up and they would have just gone there without knowing they were being weaned off of faecesbook.
And using the word 'raping' to describe mis-use of personal (but effectively partially public) information tells us that *you* clearly don't understand either the dictionary definition nor the real world meaning.
Sickening - to be honest. Ruin a perfecty good point, with a large dose of stupidity.
> actually means and is, before yammering on about Google raping yours...
>It doesn't mean what you clearly seem to think it means.
"I still miss iGoogle and the Google RSS reader."
The loss of iGoogle, which was the best and most useful service they'd provided, is the main reason why I've never let myself become reliant on Google's services again. Along with services like Buzz and Wave, they've developed too much of a track record of hooking people into their services and then pulling the plug. The demise of Google+ was only a matter of time.
Nah, I doubt they thought about that... They're just continue calling G+ dead...
Which is odd given their own G+ feed has over 2.7million views... Although not that many followers... Guess not everyone likes a 1 way stream of blah from their social network, and enjoy the more interactive elements.
I far prefer G+ to Farcebook... For a start, not every 3rd post is a server inserted advert like mobile farcebook... Also I can't remember the last idiot driven chain letter I saw on G+...
Long may it continue to be dead.
"This made me think. Google didn't exist 20 years ago. How did we ever manage??"
Pretty much the same way some of us manage now, with one difference.
Then: I didn't use Google because there was no Google; I used whatever was available to do what I needed or wanted.
Now: I don't use Google if I can avoid it, because there is a Google; I try to use something else instead to do what I need or want.
Some things are unavoidable - if I want to watch a video that's on YouTube, for example, then that's what I do. C'est la vie. It doesn't mean I can't avoid them the rest of the time (and I even block some things at the router).
They mock all equally, it's only surprising if you're new here and have a soft spot for a large tech company. It's not like they love facebook, but it's difficult to claim that it's as unpopular as Google+.
Judging by the comments on this thread G+ is full of smartarses going on about how clever and informative it is, so it's not surprising it's losing out to the inane drivel of facebook....
... disabling Hangouts results in a periodic "Unfortunately Hangouts has stopped" popup.
The problem with Google is that because of their "perpetual beta" orientation you really shouldn't invest too much into any one of their services. Eventually it will either be discontinued or morphed into something that no longer does what you want.
"The problem with Google is that because of their "perpetual beta" orientation you really shouldn't invest too much into any one of their services. Eventually it will either be discontinued or morphed into something that no longer does what you want."
I think the same could be said of the majority of software out there.
"No change is sexy" - Jah Wobble.
Google+ is, when it comes down to it, little more than a clone of an early version of Facebook with a few added features. It launched at the height of Facebook's dominance when everyone likely to subscribe to such a social network was already on Facebook, as was everyone they knew. As I said when Google+ launched their only road to success was for people to be on Google+ to get people to leave Facebook for Google+. They were in a catch 22 the whole time. How do you get people to leave the dominant social network so that their friends will leave the dominant social network when their friends are all on the dominant social network? Google has failed to come up with an answer, somewhat unsurprisingly.
Google has a rough time competing in the social media arena. Not sure why? They have the manpower and $$$ resources to do so BUT simply don't understand the marketplace. Their recent move to "delete" PICASA and try to force everyone to useless Google Photos is typical. PICASA and Google Photos are only remotely similar... And leaves so much of PICASA behind as to make the move to Google Photos simply laughable!
I refuse to be forced into creating a Google+ public profile. If a Google service requires G+, I find something else that does the same thing.
I'm just not interested in yet another @#$% social network, and I resent Google's attempts to coerce me into using theirs.
So, yippee that the Googly Ones are finally giving up on it. Maybe some day I'll be able to rate Android apps again.
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