Help, I’ve fallen into a pit of steaming Google+

http://scobleizer.com/2011/08/18/help-ive-fallen-into-a-pit-of-steaminggoogle/

by srikar • 15 years ago

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b_emery• 15 years ago

He includes a link to get a Google+ invite for the first 150 people that click. As of about 5 minutes ago, it was still working (I'm in)

tomfakes• 15 years ago

Here's another link for 150 if that one runs out - I don't know if this adds me to a circle for you to start you off:

https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3F...

pavel_lishin• 15 years ago

Are people still lacking invites to G+? I've got over 100 left, still, e-mail me if you want 'em, etc.

ry0ohki2• 15 years ago

I'm not sure anyone saw this coming, that Google+ would essentially turn into a Blogging platform, it almost seems like Tumblr's biggest competitor now instead of Facebook.

That said, how many others enjoy following people like Scoble on Google Plus? At first I thought it was great, but then I found my feed mostly clogged up with celebs, who get tons of activity (mostly seems like people who want to spam, suck up, or just make noise... very low value comments) and constantly bump their posts to the top.

I've largely unfollowed celebs, but now I have the opposite problem. Google Plus is a ghost town for normal friends. So I'm back to Twitter hourly, Facebook daily and G+ weekly. I'm just curious if anyone else is experiencing this.

runevault• 15 years ago

I only follow one "celeb" these days and while he's a share of my feed I see a decent amount of traffic from other people, but maybe it is just the type of friends I have.

I used to follow Felicia Day but she was obliterating my feed so I said hell with it, she's awesome but not THAT awesome.

arcdrag• 15 years ago

Pretty much the same here. The primary issue at hand for me is the lack of 3rd party support. Twitter and facebook are boring to me by themselves, but when I can look at them both at the same time with tweetdeck I check them both often.

rbright• 15 years ago

Pretend like it's called the "Firehose" instead of the "Stream" and then add everyone who you find even mildly interesting. Then use the circle editor to create less noisy channels – e.g., "Friends" for people you know IRL and "Tech" for tech journalists/bloggers that you find particularly interesting, etc.

IMO, this is the best of all worlds. You always have fresh content in your Stream a la Twitter; open the "Friends" circle for Facebook; "Coworkers" for LinkedIn, "Tech" for industry news; etc. Lastly, mute posts that are becoming annoying.

Thanks to circles, the main Stream is not particularly valuable real estate that you need to protect. You can always create a new circle called "Stream Sans Scoble" and add everyone except Scoble. :)

rjd3• 15 years ago

Nope circles are a joke for me. I have venn diagram problem where lots of my friends belong circles in multiple circles.

Lots of them are in advertising agencies, journalists, musicians, all people that self promote themselves as a living. Hence all my streams are full of a mix of true spam and content that I might want to see.

TBH the weighting system of Facebook is MILES ahead of circles for me. Circles is still to primitive. I seem to get the stuff I care about on Facebook first, and if things are gathering steam it gets promoted to more front page. Seems like a much better noise filter.

So I closed my Google+ account down a few weeks ago. I agree with the grand-parent post its a Tumble clone. But I prefer Tumblr its got better original content (and I've already got a great list and lots of friends there that makes me bias).

ry0ohki2• 15 years ago

I do use the circles, but unfortunately even when i stick people in the "talk to much circle" Google defaults to showing the full stream. And I can't pick "Show me everyone but this circle", so then I'm manually clicking the other 10 circles only to see that no one else is posting.

ChuckMcM• 15 years ago

Well specific feeds help a lot with that. I do wish I could 'shift-click' on feeds on the left which would give me the combination of all of those circles. And of course it would be really nice if I could alt-click a circle to exclude posts from people in that circle from showing up in the stream (don't want to block them, just want to keep their noise out where I can control it)

Sniffnoy• 15 years ago

> I'm not sure anyone saw this coming, that Google+ would essentially turn into a Blogging platform, it almost seems like Tumblr's biggest competitor now instead of Facebook.

Well, it does easily allow for actual long-form entries. Twitter explicitly forbids this. Facebook allows this but the interface discourages it. So sign up for it and suddenly, hey, you have a blog.

Honestly of all the things that have come before it, Google+ seems to me to be most comparable to LJ and its clones. Long-form entries, one-way friend graph, can direct posts to just a specific subset of people... all it's missing is threaded comments! :)

trotsky• 15 years ago

Is there a major social publishing platform that Scoble hasn't become addicted to at launch?

robtoo• 15 years ago

Scoble is the tech world's version of "famous for being famous".

corin_• 15 years ago

I think the term you're looking for is perhaps "tech socialite".

Help, I’ve fallen into a pit of steaming Google+

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