So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?

http://www.inc.com/articles/201106/google-plus-and-small-business.html

by aorshan • 15 years ago

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wccrawford2• 15 years ago

Wait for your friends to get theirs, of course.

skarayan• 15 years ago

Couldn't you just invite your friends?

wccrawford2• 15 years ago

I think they've opened up invites again now, but for a while, you couldn't. I suspect it will roll in waves like that as they hit capacity and expand, over and over.

ary2• 15 years ago

"Invite" is a verb, and "invitation" is a noun. Journalists should know better.

gte910h3• 15 years ago

Invite is an also a noun meaning invitation. Invitation is the more formal version of the same concept.

You can say "I wish she was not so informal", but that's a perfectly reasonable use of the word.

Invite dates to 1649 and invitation dates to the 15th century. (m-w.com)

hugh3• 15 years ago

You can say "I wish she was not so informal", but that's a perfectly reasonable use of the word

Surely it should be "I wish she were not so informal"?

ary2• 15 years ago

I stand corrected. The use of the word in this context feels colloquial though.

iqster• 15 years ago

They've stopped the invites. In fact, they essentially revoked invitations ... i.e. people I invited last night couldn't use their invitation email this morning. Unless Google turns it on soon, they're gonna lose a lot of good will. They've already managed to tick me off.

I also find it funny that people were using Facebook's wall to distribute Google+ invites to their friends. And I always thought that seeding a social network was hard :-p

bdhe• 15 years ago

They've stopped the invites. In fact, they essentially revoked invitations ... i.e. people I invited last night couldn't use their invitation email this morning.

Is that true? I was under the impression that the invites were not guaranteed and there was some sort of rate limit on the number of invites that were allowed to create Google+ accounts. I think your invitees can retry after sometime.

tonfa• 15 years ago

Yes, just retry.

CarlWhite• 15 years ago

Not entirely true, I was sent an invite an invite a few hours ago - works fine.

lzm• 15 years ago

I've been trying to use my invite for at least 8 hours with no success. Perhaps Google is limiting registration selectively? (e.g per country/region)

mattdeboard• 15 years ago

They didn't "essentially revoke" invitations. They capped new "account creation" (though obv it's not literally account creation). That is a separate step from inviting someone. People with invites have invites, so when they open it back up, people with invites already in hand will be at the front of the line.

joebadmo• 15 years ago

After having played with Google+ for a few hours, I find that the Circles feature is deceptively complicated, and can lead to unintended information leakage.

I've described it further here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714333

Aloisius• 15 years ago

I have to say, classifying my contacts is stressful. I created an "Inner Circle" and I'm thinking about creating a Professional one as well.

Or more likely I'll just stop playing with it.

So You Got a Google+ Invite... now what?

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