Is Google+ Better Than Facebook?

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sdifox

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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Call me old fart, but I have no interest in "social media". I am not that social to begin with. message board is as far as I would go.
 
Jeffg010

Jeffg010

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Does Google+ have games?

The main reason that Facebook killed myspace was because of games like Mafia Wars, Farmville , ect. With out games Google+ is is just a fart in the wind. There are to meny people invested in their facebook games to give it up. People been playing some of these games for over 5 years. They ain't going to give that up.

What will happen is that people will get Google+ log in for 5 mins and then go right back to playing their Facebook games. This is the anchor that Google+ will never be able to move.

Just look at Zygan and how much money they make.
http://www.kikabink.com/news/how-much-money-does-zynga-maker-of-farmville-make/
 
Bignate603

Bignate603

Lifer
Sep 5, 2000
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Ns1 said:
hm what's this?

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I just don't understand this OMG FACEBOOK HAS NO SECURITY bullshit. Spend 5 minutes on your privacy settings and BOOM your profile is locked down. You even have an option to preview what your page will look like based on a person's security setting.
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Sure, you can wade through multiple levels of menus to find all the different privacy settings for facebook but it's a serious pain in the butt. Facebook sets the default to be far more public than most people want then you have to go through and fix it all, every single time they do an update. It's pretty clear facebook doesn't make privacy a priority and has been getting away with it because there wasn't a viable alternative.
 
BeauJangles

BeauJangles

Lifer
Aug 26, 2001
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Jeffg010 said:
Does Google+ have games?

The main reason that Facebook killed myspace was because of games like Mafia Wars, Farmville , ect. With out games Google+ is is just a fart in the wind. There are to meny people invested in their facebook games to give it up. People been playing some of these games for over 5 years. They ain't going to give that up.

What will happen is that people will get Google+ log in for 5 mins and then go right back to playing their Facebook games. This is the anchor that Google+ will never be able to move.

Just look at Zygan and how much money they make.
http://www.kikabink.com/news/how-much-money-does-zynga-maker-of-farmville-make/
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Considering Google invested a few hundred million in Zynga, there's almost no doubt that Zynga-based games will be coming to G+
 
Zeze

Zeze

Lifer
Mar 4, 2011
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sdifox said:
Call me old fart, but I have no interest in "social media". I am not that social to begin with. message board is as far as I would go.
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"I am not that social to begin with."

Well, there's your problem.
 
Jeffg010

Jeffg010

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BeauJangles said:
Considering Google invested a few hundred million in Zynga, there's almost no doubt that Zynga-based games will be coming to G+
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Will the games import from Facebook? If not I don't think people will jump ship after the years of time invested. Some might to get a fresh start but I see that as only a select few. I hope that Google+ can blow Facebook out the water with games but no one is really talking about games. Everyone is talking about circles. So I have my doubts.
 
Cogman

Cogman

Lifer
Sep 19, 2000
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Jeffg010 said:
Will the games import from Facebook? If not I don't think people will jump ship after the years of time invested. Some might to get a fresh start but I see that as only a select few. I hope that Google+ can blow Facebook out the water with games but no one is really talking about games. Everyone is talking about circles. So I have my doubts.
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Humm, A social network that focuses on social networking... It is too crazy to work, We Must Add Games!

If G+ does add the ability to make Facebook esq games, I hope that it doesn't allow those stupid games to send out 5 million messages about your farmville status.
 
theeedude

theeedude

Lifer
Feb 5, 2006
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I will probably jump ship once I can get an account.
I want my social networking contacts and address book integrated. Facebook is preventing easy export of contacts to Gmail.
 
Ns1

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,420
1,600
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Bignate603 said:
Sure, you can wade through multiple levels of menus to find all the different privacy settings for facebook but it's a serious pain in the butt. Facebook sets the default to be far more public than most people want then you have to go through and fix it all, every single time they do an update. It's pretty clear facebook doesn't make privacy a priority and has been getting away with it because there wasn't a viable alternative.
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it seriously took me 5 minutes.

l0cke said:
The problem with that is there is no way to control who sees what when using the mobile app. If you post a picture it's public until you get to a pc and change it. With Google+ it's built right in and very easy to use.
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fair enough. waiting for iOS app.
 
Ns1

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,420
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crashtestdummy said:
http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1265985&topic=TopLevel

I've managed to invite a few people this way, and it looks like it was how I got invited.
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"Google+ is in limited Field Trial. During this time, when you share something with people who aren't yet able to use Google+, they'll receive it via email but won't be able to comment or engage with the content like other Google+ users. They'll be able to join Google+ as we let more users in over time.

If you're not yet on Google+, you can sign up to stay updated here."
 
TridenT

TridenT

Lifer
Sep 4, 2006
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Ns1 said:
"Google+ is in limited Field Trial. During this time, when you share something with people who aren't yet able to use Google+, they'll receive it via email but won't be able to comment or engage with the content like other Google+ users. They'll be able to join Google+ as we let more users in over time.

If you're not yet on Google+, you can sign up to stay updated here."
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I'm seeing that as well...

I got invited a few days ago I think and I still don't have any progress.
 
Ns1

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,420
1,600
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TridenT said:
I'm seeing that as well...

I got invited a few days ago I think and I still don't have any progress.
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not missing anything.

it's just a "nice to have" at this point until everybody joins.
 
TridenT

TridenT

Lifer
Sep 4, 2006
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Ns1 said:
not missing anything.

it's just a "nice to have" at this point until everybody joins.
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I doubt everyone will join though. The only reason people will join is because it's just not Facebook. It will be like that when Google+ gets old too or they find out something horrible about what G+ does like harvesting souls of infants.
 
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