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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.
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Date: 2 Jul 2011 03:15 pm (UTC)I'm sorry you don't like your mother. Maybe if you showed her how to use the Internet like a geek, you'd enjoy having her share your hobby.
I don't like your eagerness to other people, it's so privileged (cis-gendered while male? check). We were using asterisks to mark text bold back in the early 1990s on Usenet (and probably before that--it's just that I've only been using Usenet since then). And I'm a grandmother.
If you don't have the discipline to set boundaries around your use of social media (say, by rejecting friend requests, or remembering who might see that info you just posted), then stay off of them. Take responsibility for your choices, don't expect a business offering you a product to police your social group.
I doubt Google really wants to discriminate against older people. That's actually against federal law, they constitute a protected class.
And really, dude, way to show off your immaturity. If you want to say "no non-geeky people" age isn't how you do it. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. To my kids *you* are old. To my grandkids you are ancient. Even if to me you sound like a whiny teenager.
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Date: 2 Jul 2011 07:44 pm (UTC)