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Originally posted by Darkarbiter any chance of also sending an invite to]?

nobody can send invites, and even if they do the recipients can't sign up, cause google have locked it down hard after it was abused...

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Originally posted by EgosXII nobody can send invites, and even if they do the recipients can't sign up, cause google have locked it down hard after it was abused...

Could you remove my email from the quote then please. Thanks for the tip

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Originally posted by EgosXII its closed... did you actually sign up??

Yepp. Im in.

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I wonder why Google is being so stingy with registration for Plus at this point.

On the other hand, I could see an appeal in a social network that deliberately kept out the riff-raff (young teens, for example). That's part of why Facebook was initially so successful anyway. But certainly that virtue of FB is long gone...

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Originally posted by Tasty Onions I wonder why Google is being so stingy with registration for Plus at this point.

probably because it sucks and is really flawed yet and they don't want millions of people to laugh at it and discount it and then switch back to their facebook tab.


The thing with facebook is that when it came out it did things no one did. The really useful thing about it was that it connected people at school socially. I was a freshman at cornell when it came out to the ivy league schools and at that point it was a way to meet people at school that had the same interests as you, and also every weekend it had a list of parties (before the cops started checking it). Anyone who wanted a social life at school (especially freshmen who were just getting to know each other) generally had a facebook. Eventually people got hooked on stalking each other, and kept using it, and facebook expanded to many schools. At first the networks were separate but then you were able to friend people from other schools, and people started to connect with kids they went to high school with.

So facebook had established a very devoted userbase who had a good functional reason to use the website.

Then they opened it up to everyone, and since there was a devoted userbase, it faciliated rapid growth and social interaction.

With google, they're just kind of making this thing and saying, come on in the water is fine. And the only people using it are the nerdiest members of society. It kind of worked with foursquare, but again, foursquare provided a useful social function which didn't exist.

I don't see what Google + offers that makes it indispensable to people.

Apparently all it offers is closed sharing circles, which facebook already does through privacy settings.

I think maybe the niche that would work for them is to create a social networking site that is perceived as acceptable for professional and academic networking. But that could also severely limit them.

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Facebook at this point is rather like MySpace was, but much bigger and without any of the ugly customized layouts (which is an advantage not to be underestimated, hehe).

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Originally posted by nefardec Apparently all it offers is closed sharing circles, which facebook already does through privacy settings.

Yeah, that is one significant difference, IMO: the default in Plus is for things to be private, but in FB the default is for everything to be public.

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I think maybe the niche that would work for them is to create a social networking site that is perceived as acceptable for professional and academic networking. But that could also severely limit them.

Isn't that what Linkedin is for?

http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...erson-on-google


linked in is more for sharing resumes and contacts. what i mean with professional and academic use for google+ is project collaboration and stuff.

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Originally posted by nefardec http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_new...erson-on-google linked in is more for sharing resumes and contacts. what i mean with professional and academic use for google+ is project collaboration and stuff.

LinkedIn is most certainly used for Academic and Professional social networking, why do you think they are centered around a "resume" type layout? Google Wave failed with their idea of project collaboration, but Google+ is supposed to be personal networking, so while it can be used for project collaboration, that's not what it's for at all.

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Originally posted by ziptnf LinkedIn is most certainly used for Academic and Professional social networking, why do you think they are centered around a "resume" type layout?

heads-up: don't say "centered around" on linkedin.