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thenewgreen  ·  3494 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google+ got right what Facebook got wrong.

    I think people dislike Google Plus as a social network because it's forced on you.
-I agree that this is a major reason that people haven't more enthusiastically adopted it. When they first launched is was by invite only, right? There was a ton of buzz and I recall people being excited to check it out. If they had stuck with that instead of the forced nature, perhaps it would have continued to hold our interest.

My neighbor recently suggested that her 20 year old daughter might really like Hubski and that she was going to tell her to spend time here. Nobody wants to hang out where their mom thinks is cool though, so I seriously doubt that she'll become a part of our community. Google is like the "mom" in this situation. Now, nobody wants to hang out at G+.