Looking for Google+ invite

[BURST!]

Any chance I can grab an invite?

kelly.mikli@gmail.com

[dj sterilize]

I have a lot of invites i can give out if anyone is still interested pm me

[wrong chris]

I signed up to google+ because it was better than facebook.

lol if you say so.

[urbanj]

yes all these features sound really neat.

but ask yourself this, did you sign up to facebook because of the little features? why did you sign up to facebook in the first place, why do you still have an account?

Most people signed up for facebook because it was clean, a way to stay in contact with friends and nothing like Myspace. more and more people I know are getting fed up with facebook and how commercial it got. Then again. thats the only way it can make money and fulfill the desires of their investors.

Google does not need revenue from this product to succeed. this is not their core business. granted there will be some ads I'm sure but advertising is googles thing and they know how to do it right.

if they keep google+ unobtrusive and simple they will clean up. Facebook wiped the floor with myspace because they were what they are not now.

[Afterhour Ali]

Google+ is pretty clean. You don't need a science degree to be able to properly set the privacy-settings.

The problem is that (as mentioned a few pages before) a lot of girls/normal users don't care about that a bit. What they already have is good enough or they are too lazy to move.

The interconnectivity between G+ and other Google-products is great for all of us tech-savy users. So my guess is that it will end up being a big sausage-party. A place for nerds to live without good-luck-nuts or Farmville-mumbo-jumbo but I'm already asking myself: Where them girls at?

[josh@firestorm]

Where them girls at?

Build it, and they will come.


facebook took ages to gain momentum in the beginning.

[Afterhour Ali]

Build it, and they will come.

facebook took ages to gain momentum in the beginning.

Yeah, which girl doesn't dream to be in Doc Bootygrabber's "selected" circle?

I remember that it looked like this for almost one and a half year when I started using Facebook:

[photojojo]

I don't see enough wrong with facebook to make most people switch.

[Afterhour Ali]

I don't see enough wrong with facebook to make most people switch.

That's the point.

Facebook is like a boyfriend who's beating his girl every once in a while when he's drunk. She won't like it but probably get used to it. Its not him who's doing it, it's the Zuckerberg.

[wrong chris]

Most people signed up for facebook because it was clean, a way to stay in contact with friends and nothing like Myspace.

exactly. the concept was ridiculously simple, but just original enough to blow up and much to Google's chagrin - Facebook came up with it first.

more and more people I know are getting fed up with facebook and how commercial it got. Then again. thats the only way it can make money and fulfill the desires of their investors.

if they keep google+ unobtrusive and simple they will clean up. Facebook wiped the floor with myspace because they were what they are not now.

although i agree people are dissatisfied with some aspects of facebook's business practice - at the core it's still very much the same service, albeit with a few ads on the sidebars that are easy enough to ignore.

my argument is that Google+ is not offering a new simple but original concept to differentiate itself from Facebook and Twitter the same way Facebook differentiated itself from Myspace. Google's plan is to take the core concepts of Twitter and Facebook and just tack on a couple bells and whistles. That might be enough to stir up interest from tech geeks and teenagers for a little while, but i seriously doubt it's enough to become the new social network giant.