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Re: Things that Google+ got right

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I never actually used Google Plus more than the smallest bit, but I now 
regret it.

Still find it remarkable that Google is so quick to drop services: rss 
reader, social media, Hangouts, what next?

On 2019-03-29 01:26:10 +0000, RS Wood said:

> https://erik.itland.no/what-did-google-get-right
> 
> I used to use it, and generally liked it; never really understood all
> the antipathy.  To everyone who doubled down on Facebook and mocked
> Google's attempt to get in on social networking, how's it look now that
> we know what Facebook has become?
> 
> //--clip
> Google plus had circles
> 
> ... so unlike with twitter I didn't have to spam everyone to reach
> those two followers who'd actually care about that topic.
> 
> Example: I could add Norwegians I knew to my “Norwegians” circle so I
> could share links to Norwegian pages only to people I knew could read
> Norwegian.
> 
> Google plus had collections
> 
> ... so unlike Facebook and Twitter, people who were interested in some
> of the same things as me wouldn't have to follow everything I ever
> posted.
> 
> Example: I had collections for:
> Java (links and comments)
> 
> local stuff (my pictures from my town etc)
> 
> retro stuff (c64 etc)
> 
> 
> Google plus had groups
> 
> ... kind of like Facebook groups but without having to deal with
> Facebook. (I now trust Google less than before as well, but Facebook
> has worked harder to earn their position as untrustworthy.)
> 
> They worked kind of like forums with topics, threads and members but:
> with good ux
> 
> without signing up and in to 15 different places, all with their own
> ads for “their own app”.
> ...
> //--clip

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Things that Google+ got right RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-28 21:26 -0400
  Re: Things that Google+ got right The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2019-03-29 08:12 -0700
    Re: Things that Google+ got right Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-03-29 16:56 -0300
      Re: Things that Google+ got right Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-29 22:25 +0000
  Re: Things that Google+ got right Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-29 21:21 +0000
  Re: Things that Google+ got right Dostoevsky <do-not-email-me@dnem.dnem> - 2019-03-29 20:51 -0500
  Re: Things that Google+ got right Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-03-31 00:22 +0000

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