ECHO……echo
That’s the sound it makes when you shout into the vast vacuous space that is Google +.
Google + is the Internet giants third attempt to break into the social media spotlight- and will it see success with this one? Maybe. By throwing Facebook and twitter they seem to be integrating micro blogging and network sharing all in one place. Not to bad an idea. What is a bad idea, for a social network at least, is to make it invite only! I ask you! It’s like holding an amazing party at the playboy mansion, locking the gates, giving three people Keys and hoping that they make copies for all their friends and convince them to cone along. And thanks to what I am calling “googles 3 key philosophy” I only have 3 friends on the thing. Not that I’m surprised- they did the same with gmail;
“Look at this amazing thing you can’t have yet!”. So I guess I’ll have to wait a bit to see how this one pans out. But with my 3 friends on Google+ vs my 300 on Facebook I know who’s winning.
Feel free to field some questions about the new Google + in the comments or Forum.
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5 Comments
Fairy-Fay Thomson
I don’t understand. So you were invited to join by one of those 3 friends? And who invited them? Is this a bit like tracing all of mankind back to Adam and Eve? Was it just one guy at google who invited his friends and hoped they’d invite their friends etc? When you compare that to the numerous stories of party invites on facebook leading to 100s of teenagers descending on a quiet house in suburbia and trashing it I almost feel sorry for google. They are like the snobby boys at school who were having wine & cheese soirees whilst the rest of us were having beer and playing spin the bottle. Come on google, it’s time to invite some of the lesser mortals to your party!
20 Aug 2011 02:08 am
Anthony Brownmoore
I was actually invited by a friend who's email address I don't actually have in my address book- so I can't add her to my circle of friends! Very apt analogy by the way- Google do seem to think that by using an invite system they can avoid the riff raft and kind of abuse that Facebook has been subjected to over the years. Trouble is the world loves anarchy and wants nothing more than to see someone throw stones through googles shiny glass windows. May as well open the flood gates straight away and see what you're letting yourself in for running a social network. its sort of like running a zoo with only one monkey...Then letting 3 million arrive a week after opening.
22 Aug 2011 10:08 am
Fairy-Fay Thomson
I don’t understand. So you were invited to join by one of those 3 friends? And who invited them? Is this a bit like tracing all of mankind back to Adam and Eve? Was it just one guy at google who invited his friends and hoped they’d invite their friends etc? When you compare that to the numerous stories of party invites on facebook leading to 100s of teenagers descending on a quiet house in suburbia and trashing it I almost feel sorry for google. They are like the snobby boys at school who were having wine & cheese soirees whilst the rest of us were having beer and playing spin the bottle. Come on google, it’s time to invite some of the lesser mortals to your party!
20 Aug 2011 02:08 am
Emily
I liked this post. It made me laugh a little – you’re right, there’s no way Google are going to out-do Facebook when it’s invite only and 3 of your friends have it. To be honest, if only 3 friends have Google+, it’s a little pointless. It is actually pretty good – but I won’t start using it more unless more of my friends start signing up.
Something that you may find amusing is that we found some stats showing that most Google managers don’t use Google+, our CTO has posted the stats in a blog article showing the figures http://www.lucidica.com/blog/cto/management-of-google-dont-seem-to-love-google/
I hope it takes off in the future though – would be a waste of something good
01 Nov 2011 01:11 pm
Brown
I think the main problem is that it was a fairly obvious move on google's part- first it tried to battle twitter with "Buzz" then Facebook with "+". Surely it should be google making something we haven't seen yet, very, very simply....Like monkey butlers.
01 Nov 2011 02:11 pm
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