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Google Plus

Social Network Usage

  • Use Google Plus Exclusively

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • Use Facebook Exclusively

    Votes: 16 25.4%

  • Use a combination of the two

    Votes: 15 23.8%

  • Use another service

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • On Planet X we don't use social networking

    Votes: 27 42.9%
  • Total voters
    63

seayakin

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seayakin
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I was wondering if anyone who does social network has switched to Google Plus and if you are using it to replace Facebook. I currently use both but my tech oriented friends seem to be oriented more toward Google Plus.
 
I signed up for Google+ fairly early, but most of the people I interact with are still just on Facebook. Although G+ has some very nice features (such as much better control of who sees your individual posts), the critical mass of people is not there yet.
 
Aepervius said:
Maybe not the feedback you wanted, but I avoid social networking like the pest. I like too much my privacy.
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I'll have to say I contemplate dropping out of all the social networking and google stuff because of privacy issues. In the end, I decide like many other to blindly trust it won't be a problem in order to enjoy the no charge stuff (especially from Google). I have been drawing the line at facebook apps.
 
I would dearly love for G+ to take off, but as Zooterkin says, most people are sticking with either Twitter (the people I don't mind reading stuff from) or Facebook (which I barely look at at all now). I generally have a tab open to Twitter and one for G+, but I rarely actually post to either.
 
I made a G+ account, found out I only have 2 friends using it, and have not really checked back since.
 
I sort of graduated to it as several friends of mine and I were using Google Wave as a "whitepage" for various projects we were working on. We know use G+ mostly as a a bulletin board and the odd video chat session.
 
TheDoLittle said:
I sort of graduated to it as several friends of mine and I were using Google Wave as a "whitepage" for various projects we were working on. We know use G+ mostly as a a bulletin board and the odd video chat session.
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I have a question about this. How do you secure your work projects on a social networking platform? I know absolutely that nothing at my work could possibly be shared on something like G+ or Facebook. It's not just a matter of preference, convenience, or accessibility: it's simply not compliant in any way that I know of.
 
stilicho said:
I have a question about this. How do you secure your work projects on a social networking platform? I know absolutely that nothing at my work could possibly be shared on something like G+ or Facebook. It's not just a matter of preference, convenience, or accessibility: it's simply not compliant in any way that I know of.
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I'm not sure if this is exactly what you would need but with Google docs you can let people only view docs, edit docs, or edit and administer (which would allow them to share it with others)
 
I use twitter, facebook, linked in, and G+ not to mention RSS via Google reader.

The future is not in one of these taking over but in the intelligent aggregation of content too and from these different providers.
 
stilicho said:
I have a question about this. How do you secure your work projects on a social networking platform? I know absolutely that nothing at my work could possibly be shared on something like G+ or Facebook. It's not just a matter of preference, convenience, or accessibility: it's simply not compliant in any way that I know of.
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When Wave was still in Beta (and I got in early only because I was using it for developing educational purposes... at least that was what I told the team! 8-)) we could set up privacy and access for certain users. When we hopped over to G+ we could set up a particular Circle where we could then only post stuff (not being able to edit directly like in Wave, but since we tend to download and edit on our particular machines it wasn't a big issue) that people in the Circle could see and comment on.

Of course, at any time any one of us could accidentally or intentionally add the "Public" Circle to the post and our "super-sekrit projects" would be available for all the public to see. We've been pretty careful so far.

seayakin said:
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you would need but with Google docs you can let people only view docs, edit docs, or edit and administer (which would allow them to share it with others)
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And we've done a combination G+, Picasa (which is going away), Docs, and Google Drive (which is likely replacing our Picasa use)... all of which allow privacy settings for particular users.
 
I'm a heavy user of Facebook - I post regularly, actively manage my friend lists, I admin several pages for organisations I belong to, and am always the person who has to explain why the latest change they make isn't the nightmare horror story that everyone else seems to think it is.

I have a Google+ account, but I don't use it a lot. I can't use Hangouts since when I'm not at work I'm on restricted downloads, and there's really nothing else G+ does that isn't just a duplicate of what Facebook does.
 
SezMe said:
Is that an official position or just your sense of it? I am part of an organization that uses Picasa and if it is really going away, we should seek an alternative.
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Last month when I took a ton of photos and uploaded it from my local Picasa 3, it would only upload it to my G+ account and not my Picasa one. Piknik has gone, not that I used it. There hasn't been an update to the Picasa page itself other than to tie it into Google+.

Of course this is all my circumstantial opinion, so the best bet would be to ask Google themselves.
 
TheDoLittle said:
Last month when I took a ton of photos and uploaded it from my local Picasa 3, it would only upload it to my G+ account and not my Picasa one. Piknik has gone, not that I used it. There hasn't been an update to the Picasa page itself other than to tie it into Google+.

Of course this is all my circumstantial opinion, so the best bet would be to ask Google themselves.
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I'm hoping that it isn't true, but they do seem to be trying to move people over to G+. I don't necessarily mind having them there as well, but G+ doesn't replicate all of the functionality of Picasa at all. I'm having no trouble uploading to Picasaweb, though; it just copies it all over to G+ as well.
 
It does seem google is pushing everything to integrate in Google Plus. I know my igoogle page won't come up in a separate tab. I have also noticed the same issue with Picasa integrating into google plus.
 
I have both FB and Google+, but most of my friends don't have G+ yet. Google hasn't, in my opinion anyway, done much of a job of marketing it. If they were to climb down off their mountain of cash and throw a few bucks into raising awareness, I think it would take off (I do prefer it to Facebook).
 
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