Is Google+ Better Than Facebook?

[cronos]

Hard to tell. There's nobody on it.

It has definite promise, but it will only be good if people I know can get an account.

I have a circle with more than 100 people already in it (less than 10 of them without Google+)

It's way too early to crown it the 'Facebook killer', but it definitely has potential.

 

[mugs]

Google+ is better than Facebook, but it lacks the people. And in social networking, that's all that really matters.

Not sure why they think this limited rollout is a good thing, isn't this kind of how Google Wave died?

Google Wave died because nobody could figure out what they were supposed to use it for. You could probably say that Orkut was less successful than it could have been because they deliberately limited who had access to it. Hopefully Google doesn't keep up this limited access for too long.

 

[Arkaign]

I don't think it can get the critical mass to pull people over from FB. FB is 20 times larger than Myspace ever was, and the reason FB took off was because it attracted more people than just teens, juggalos, awful bands, and gang members. Now that the void is filled and everyone who wants a social media hub is on it, it's pointless to add another one. It's 5 years too late.

I mean, how irritating would it be if Google+ actually got big enough to attract a decent amount of your friends, but many stayed on FB and never got Google+. I don't even like FB all that well to begin with, but it really does everything a social media site needs to do already, I damned sure don't want to have to get yet another social media account and screw with that. I don't even really care if it's better, because in FB I typically spend about 30 seconds a day at max on it. Check to see what messages/updates are there, click click done, log out.

 

[abaez]

The difference is that the Google homepage has 100 billion searches a day. When you're signed up with Google+ the dashboard up on top gives you notifications right there without having to do anything. It's there while you search, use gmail, reader, etc.

That is huge pull for something lots of people already do. So just because Facebook "does everything" doesn't mean someone can't come along and do it better.

 

[Doppel]

Is google trying to ambush this project by making it so hard to get on that by the time the general public can get on those early adopters have already lost interested because nobody can get in? Who the F thought that was a good idea?

haha, it really is more hated than IRS per comment above

http://www.switched.com/2010/07/20/facebook-even-more-reviled-than-the-irs-study-says/

My issues with facebook are I don't like its founder, don't trust its privacy whatsoever at all, and it is trying to be too invasive with other sites. Its apps are to me crap and I hate seeing people's use of them popup on my status.

I mean, how irritating would it be if Google+ actually got big enough to attract a decent amount of your friends, but many stayed on FB and never got Google+.

All G+ would need is an import feature

 

[Maleficus]

I really want G+ to succeed, but I just don't think people will switch from facebook.

 

[charrison]

G+ is better in just about every way. Better UI, better content control. Everything is just well thought out.

That all being said, it is damn lonely place unless you are following some of big name insiders. Google needs to lets the invites flowing again.


Google is going to be hard pressed to pry away users from facebook. However, they have aall the tools in place to do it(mobile, chrome app store, and all the google apps)

Things are about to get interesting in this market.

 

[LordMorpheus]

I know that some people have gotten vouchers to gain access to Google+. For those of you who have, is it better than Facebook?

I have an account, and I think the interface is better than facebook, but so far only my sister is "in my circle" so I can't really speak to how it is as a social network.

G+ is better in just about every way. Better UI, better content control. Everything is just well thought out.

That all being said, it is damn lonely place unless you are following some of big name insiders. Google needs to lets the invites flowing again.


Google is going to be hard pressed to pry away users from facebook. However, they have aall the tools in place to do it(mobile, chrome app store, and all the google apps)

Things are about to get interesting in this market.

You can invite people by tagging them in posts - google sends them an email invitation to come check it out.

 

[pookguy88]

You can invite people by tagging them in posts - google sends them an email invitation to come check it out.

this method doesn't work anymore, or at the very least, isn't sure-fire

 

[dud]

I know that some people have gotten vouchers to gain access to Google+. For those of you who have, is it better than Facebook?

Being better than Facebook wouldn't take much effort.

 

[Martin]

Got invites, but only after they shut them down, so I haven't been able to try it out. Facebook annoys me in many ways (the hoops you have to jump through to get some semblance of privacy, the fact that my friends are so diverse it keeps me from posting/sharing anything but generic stuff, etc) so it would not take very much to make me switch.

 

[charrison]

You can invite people by tagging them in posts - google sends them an email invitation to come check it out.

That no longer appears to work...

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Isn't this like a two way tie for last place?

 

[LordMorpheus]

That no longer appears to work...

This method is how I got my invite yesterday evening. They'll open things up soon enough.

 

[dwell]

 

[Doppel]

I was hardly kidding before. This is not email, social media sites are growing or they are dying. Why is google not ratcheting up access to this? Nobody will even bother to use it if the only person in their circle is their sister; they'll have to go right back to facebook and then "check from time to time" (or just not bother) to see if it's finally usable. That is a very strange rollout schedule.

 

[charrison]

I was hardly kidding before. This is not email, social media sites are growing or they are dying. Why is google not ratcheting up access to this? Nobody will even bother to use it if the only person in their circle is their sister; they'll have to go right back to facebook and then "check from time to time" (or just not bother) to see if it's finally usable. That is a very strange rollout schedule.

They are damned if they do and damned if they dont. If they let everyone on all at once and blows because of capacity issues, no one will use it either.

Normal folks are not even aware this thing exists at this point.

 

[JSt0rm]

Can somebody send me a invite? Hows do invites work?

 

[Cogman]

I was hardly kidding before. This is not email, social media sites are growing or they are dying. Why is google not ratcheting up access to this? Nobody will even bother to use it if the only person in their circle is their sister; they'll have to go right back to facebook and then "check from time to time" (or just not bother) to see if it's finally usable. That is a very strange rollout schedule.

Actually, it makes a lot of sense. Making something exclusive is a great way to make people WANT it. I would argue that the initial exclusivity of facebook is part of what fueled it to be what it is today. (that, and the fact that its only competitor was myspace).

 

[Ns1]

Google plus is worthless without other people. I'll wait until they open up registrations again or something.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Actually, it makes a lot of sense. Making something exclusive is a great way to make people WANT it. I would argue that the initial exclusivity of facebook is part of what fueled it to be what it is today. (that, and the fact that its only competitor was myspace).

I figure I'll not delete my Facebook account, but I will use google+.

I think it'll be like gchat - when it came out I used mostly AIM, but over the course of 5 or so years all of the people that I met would give me their gmail info and I'd just use gchat to do instant messaging with them - now I hardly use my AIM account. Everyone has a gmail account, they'll fill out their profiles eventually, and then you'll wind up in someone's circle whenever you exchange emails. It's just one less step than with facebook (like gchat was one less step than AIM).

It's not going to happen quickly, but I think it'll be pretty healthy.

 

[Newbian]

I figure I'll not delete my Facebook account, but I will use google+.

I think it'll be like gchat - when it came out I used mostly AIM, but over the course of 5 or so years all of the people that I met would give me their gmail info and I'd just use gchat to do instant messaging with them - now I hardly use my AIM account. Everyone has a gmail account, they'll fill out their profiles eventually, and then you'll wind up in someone's circle whenever you exchange emails. It's just one less step than with facebook (like gchat was one less step than AIM).

It's not going to happen quickly, but I think it'll be pretty healthy.

The problem with gmail is now that they make you give them your phone number to open a email account that unless you already had one before they started to require that to verify you many people stopped making it because of that odd requirement.

Especially since I have yet to see any other email accounts require such a thing.

 

[gophins72]

google+ will replace facebook.

 

[Newbian]

Also since google owns youtube I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of youtube spam.

 

[Anubis]

Also since google owns youtube I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of youtube spam.

speaking of that is it possible to be logged into gmail with 1 accnt and youtube with another?

if so im gonna guess opera is having a cookie issue with it as it always either logs me out of 1 of them or trys to log me in with the wrong one