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Will Google+ be your new home?

Will Google+ be your new social site?

  • Yes, it will be my first social networking site

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Will Google+ be your new social networking site?

Google+ has been around for a few months now in closed beta, but yesterday it's been opened up to the general public.

Facebook users... will you switch?
Do you think the 2012 presidential candidates will invest time and money into Google+ like they did Myspace in 2007/2008?
 
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I barely use facebook now, so I doubt I will be be rushing into the latest social networking trend.

If it even becomes a trend. People who are initially attracted will be drawn inexorably back into facebooks by dozens and hundreds of 'friends' who feel little compulsion to switch over. The only way to bring people in in significant numbers is to draw in whole networks at once, and when you consider the range of functions and accessories anchoring individuals in facebook, the urge of some to try out something new will be overwhelmed by habits of those who won't change no matter what.

Probably.
 
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Facebook and Twitter, meh. I don't really care what some girl I hardly knew in high school is paying for lemons in East Lansing, Michigan. Google + might rock me, but not if it is just a flashy Facebook.
 
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nah. I just use fb to look at semi-hot chicks i happen to know. I have no incentive to switch to google+.
 
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I personally don't like Facebook and Twitter, mainly because I think they're a waste of time and because I can only look with disgust at how so many people are addicted to pointless things in SNS.
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Re: Will Google+ be your new social networking site?

I don't really use social networking sites. I consider them a huge breach of personal and professional safety. Especially Social Networks that make deals with search engines and clearly breach their own contracts.
 
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I seldom go to any of these sites, and find them a waste of time.
 
Re: Will Google+ be your new social networking site?

Facebook and Twitter, meh. I don't really care what some girl I hardly knew in high school is paying for lemons in East Lansing, Michigan. Google + might rock me, but not if it is just a flashy Facebook.

Girls do not pay for anything in East Lansing. Just sayin'.
 
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I'll probably try Google+, but I'll be shutting down my Facebook presence as best I can regardless. I don't like the Facebook UI or security.
 
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I'll probably try Google+, but I'll be shutting down my Facebook presence as best I can regardless. I don't like the Facebook UI or security.

Ditto......
 
Re: Will Google+ be your new social networking site?

I stopped using Google actually and I certainly won't be using their social networking site.
 
Google+ has been around for a few months now in closed beta, but yesterday it's been opened up to the general public.

Facebook users... will you switch?
Do you think the 2012 presidential candidates will invest time and money into Google+ like they did Myspace in 2007/2008?

As with any other social network, they likelihood of use stems from the community. Until there is enough users in any given community I am involved with, Google+ is on the backburner. That said, I am liking Google+, though I have not used it much.
 
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Honestly I am considering canceling my facebook account and forgetting about social networking all together. With Facebook trying to make it more and more simple for people to follow my every move, I have no interest in giving them so much power. I've posted maybe 10 things on my wall in the last year, and basically only use the site as a digital contact list in case I want to plan something with a group of friends.

I liked Facebook better when only college students could use it. I felt like I could actually trust them back then...
 
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I'll probably try Google+, but I'll be shutting down my Facebook presence as best I can regardless. I don't like the Facebook UI or security.

What is the problem with the security. I keep hearing about this but not sure what the issue is.
 
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Redress said:
Girls do not pay for anything in East Lansing. Just sayin'.

Some of 'em do, I imagine. Not sure about now, but when I went to U of M, MSU had one of the best girl-to-guy ratios of major public campuses in the country. There was a reason I've partied there before.

Definitely not the f'n sausagefest Michigan was.
 
Re: Will Google+ be your new social networking site?

What is the problem with the security. I keep hearing about this but not sure what the issue is.

Apps are pretty aggressive with your data. Some apps are designed to snag your permissions and merely mine it, sometimes what is public or not isn't completely clear (though much better than before), etc.
 
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i have an account now; waiting to see how it goes.
 
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I dont use social sites at all..but my wife has a real thing going on facebook with the kids and grandkids and shes involved with animal shelters and animal cruelty orgs and she has farms going and ranchs and...all I know is that im constantly having to bail her out of windows problems...lol but she loves it and she always has a new picture of the kids and grandkids to fawn over...makes her happy..
 
Re: Will Google+ be your new social networking site?

I don't like Facebook. The only reason I use it, is because I have to.

If everyone switches to google+, then I will switch.
 
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