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user-inactivated  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do you use other social media?

No G+ users here? I barely use mine but it's actually pretty nice for following tech people and tech news. Plus the new communities thing is interesting. Overall I think it's promising, I just hope that it doesn't keep adding features and subsequently get bloated with too much stuff.

I like Twitter for its simplicity but like others have said the archaic character limit keeps me away. I'm begrudgingly still using Facebook for now for its utility. And lastly, like many others on here I just migrated here from reddit, since that's been going downhill for a while.





guybrush  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Two reasons I will not be using G+ in the near future (although I think my phone may have automatically set an account up). 1. Google already have far too much of my personal information. 2. It would need to hit a certain level of usage within my friends/peers for me to gain enough value.

koh  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just deactivated my Facebook and will be switching over to G+ soon. The Facebook crowd has drama, random updates (like Twitter's stream of consciousness), and reposts of memes and snarky sayings. A few of my friends are on G+ already, and there's considerably more discussion.

tubadude  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I use G+, I like the community aspect, but I don't use it terribly often.

baltoli  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The reason I don't use G+ is that I can get it's functionality elsewhere. I follow tech people on twitter, and few big names on facebook (Robert Scoble, Zuck etc). If more people used it, I'd be tempted to use G+. I personally don't think twitter's character limit is archaic, and it's what makes the platform what it is.

user-inactivated  ·  4109 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah I know what you mean re:twitter. I go back and forth between what I think about twitter. The simplicity of it is a godsend in comparison with other social media. On the other hand, as @strangegibbersh@ posted above, the reverse order of longer posts and conversations makes it hard to piece together what someone is saying and makes the platform seem a little messy to me (also, with all that tweeting lingo, it sometimes takes me forever just to figure out what someone is saying).

With G+, I like it because it does a lot of things pretty well and has a pretty clean interface. Unfortunately, being a jack-of-all-trades means it is a master of none. sigh I'm glad there's competition, but boy would it be nice if there were one simple platform that all my friends and everybody I want to follow were on.