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This guy thinks I won't use Google+ because I'm old enough to be someone's mom, and therefore I'm an "average user" who is "locked into Facebook," as opposed to a member of the club of "geeks, insiders, social media stars, journalists, and other people" or "people who have strong social graphs". He's glad about this because "we geeks and early adopters and social media gurus need a place to talk free of folks who think Justin Bieber is the second coming of Christ." (Huh...I haven't seen a single conversation about Justin Bieber among my friends.)
He thinks that having to use *asterisks* to tag text as bold is "mighty geeky" and so it will keep "normal people" out, the people who "want the system just to bring them fun stuff without doing any work." Because "Normal/average users? They just want to watch TV and drink beer." Which means "Google+ is for the passionate users of tech" and "if you want to really be able to choose who you listen to, then Google+ is much better" than Facebook.
He's also excited about the “'Hangout' videochat feature" because "You can have 10 people call into a room and it lets you all talk to each other." Oooh! People have never been able to do that before! And now we can do it with video. That makes it easy to weed out of our social circles the ugly and different people and the stray "woman old enough to be a mom" who managed to sneak her way in.
Personally, I'm not rushing to join it primarily because Google already has a ton of demographic data on me and I'd rather not give it even more.
This guy thinks I won't use Google+ because I'm old enough to be someone's mom, and therefore I'm an "average user" who is "locked into Facebook," as opposed to a member of the club of "geeks, insiders, social media stars, journalists, and other people" or "people who have strong social graphs". He's glad about this because "we geeks and early adopters and social media gurus need a place to talk free of folks who think Justin Bieber is the second coming of Christ." (Huh...I haven't seen a single conversation about Justin Bieber among my friends.)
He thinks that having to use *asterisks* to tag text as bold is "mighty geeky" and so it will keep "normal people" out, the people who "want the system just to bring them fun stuff without doing any work." Because "Normal/average users? They just want to watch TV and drink beer." Which means "Google+ is for the passionate users of tech" and "if you want to really be able to choose who you listen to, then Google+ is much better" than Facebook.
He's also excited about the “'Hangout' videochat feature" because "You can have 10 people call into a room and it lets you all talk to each other." Oooh! People have never been able to do that before! And now we can do it with video. That makes it easy to weed out of our social circles the ugly and different people and the stray "woman old enough to be a mom" who managed to sneak her way in.
Personally, I'm not rushing to join it primarily because Google already has a ton of demographic data on me and I'd rather not give it even more.
re: At last, with Google+, everyone on the Internet will know you're a dog again.
Date: 2 Jul 2011 12:39 am (UTC)Actually, though, what I'm waiting for is for someone to come up with "mark as read" in one of these social media or another. You wouldn't think that would be so hard.
Re: At last, with Google+, everyone on the Internet will know you're a dog again.
Date: 2 Jul 2011 01:27 am (UTC)Mostly it seems to have a better interface for groups of friends (not designed to maximize sharing for the benefit of advertisers) and better facilities for actually seeing the stuff you want to see and making conversations from it (am I the only person who conducts fb business almost entirely by email?).
But I still get such a strong sense that people are trying to reinvent usenet and threaded newsreaders with a tiny side of IM.
Re: At last, with Google+, everyone on the Internet will know you're a dog again.
Date: 2 Jul 2011 03:51 pm (UTC)Re: At last, with Google+, everyone on the Internet will know you're a dog again.
Date: 5 Jul 2011 12:18 am (UTC)I think what we need (yeah, right) is to create a bunch of virtual uber-personas that can have the friends, interests and other stuff that all the reinventions seem to require. Everything nowadays (for partly-technical, mostly business-model reasons) centers on people and the threads etc that they create -- at least as far as I can see -- and that doesn't really work for oldsters like me.
Re: At last, with Google+, everyone on the Internet will know you're a dog again.
Date: 2 Jul 2011 04:07 am (UTC)