On Your Mark … Get Set … GooglePlus
July 11, 2011 at 10:19 pm Leave a comment
We’re off! Yes, we’re all on GooglePlus, poking and prodding. For me, it solves one of my pet peeves with Facebook: it’s easy to publish posts only to certain people with Circles. There is stuff I want to share with my adult friends, but not my teenage nieces.
Another advantage according to a photography buff friend is that photos are much better.
I would like to connect the items I share via Google Reader with Google Plus. If I could stream my shares into consummable posts like Twitter, I might not need Twitter. I love connecting with new people on Twitter, something I would never do on Facebook. However, I may do that on GooglePlus because of Circles.
But do connections want every type of content from all of their “friends”? Circles should work in reverse, too: I may want text posts from my co-workers, but not their personal posts. Likewise, I like hearing from my nieces, but don’t need the latest YouTube videos of cats, Bieber, or cats dancing to Bieber. (One of my nieces, however, just quoted Rush on Facebook and I am so proud.)
Life is never as orderly as we like, but increasing signal-to-noice reduces the chaos.
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My name is Adam Gross. 
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