Who Do You Follow on Google+?

Wouldnt know. I tried to sign up for it and got an automated message saying they had plenty of users already and didnt need anymore, thanks, bye... (or words to that effect)

I use Yahoo anyway, that'll teach them.

 

Would you like an invite?

I follow Markus "Notch" Persson, and some local comic artists Jeff Ellis and Kevin Forbes. I mainly use it to share stuff with my fiancé's family since they are more tech savvy than mine. I'd be interested in some foodie types, so send them my way if you find any more

 

It'll be great to see where this thread goes considering I'm still wondering what exactly I'm doing on Google+ anyway. I'm following plenty of you, photographers, visual artists, some writers and a few art critics and it's still much neglected like my Tumblr.

 

Look, this is what it says:

Google+ is in limited Field Trial
At the moment, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure that you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people.
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They might as well put up a link to "No Vaseline" by Ice Cube and just write "HERE'S WHAT WE THINK ABOUT YOU" in big letters on the front screen.
Funny way to go about taking on Facebook.

 

I'm still waiting for my 'invite' from Google+ too.

 

I dont know how they get away with that level of contempt for their potential "customers"

Imagine if Tesco hung a sign outside saying "we have enough shoppers right now, come back later and we'll think about whether we want to let you in again"

 

Beyond any personal offence I took at the last line of their message "we'll let you know..." on principle I dont like exclusive things.

As you suggest, thats a part of my personality.

It would strike most people as ridiculous and childish, but every year my company has a managers only christmas meal, which I refuse to attend because I dont want to go to something that the people that work with me in my dept cant attend. When suppliers send me Christmas gifts I always give them to other guys/girls on the desk. Every year I get offered football tickets by a couple of suppliers, and I always refuse.

I understand that a lot of people like the idea of being part of something "by invitation", I understand that my aversion to it is not normal or really justified, but its just how I feel.

 

I was accepted to Google + when it first started. Most of my friends ended up going back to Facebook because they didn't want to update two sites. I like the ability to post certain things to some people (circles) rather than everyone getting everything.

 

I wish more people were on Google+, it's lonely there. I still do Google+ and Facebook, but it would be nice someday if enough people migrated that I could switch over completely, like what happened with MySpace.

To respond to the topic, the only person I follow who isn't an acquaintance of mine is Felicia Day. She actually posts quite a bit.

As far as people who want invites, Google+ currently says I have 150 invites remaining, and if I'm doing it right, you can have one of my invites with this link.
https://plus.google.com/i/cTlAmu4cpA0:9cJZwWcPYeU

 

Thats pretty hard since they apparently only let "cool" people join!

 

I never really saw it as a "cool people" thing, I saw it as a beta test, like cynthetiq said. I suppose it helps that I'm a gamer, and I'm used to the concept of beta testing. When it came out, I put my name on a list to be notified when I could join, and eventually got an invite (I don't remember if it was from the site or a friend.) http://www.qwiki.com/ had a similar opening that I had to sign up and get on a list for when it started.

 

Google insulted me first. If they dont want people to be negative about them maybe they shouldnt write "we'll make sure that you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people" when a man tries to joint their site.

They could let people register and send the passwords later if they want a soft launch, or they could make it invite only and close the application portal. Instead they have up this contemptuous "come back later and maybe we'll think about letting you in if we're in the mood" type message.

Plus nobody has sent me an invite to it, just made statement that they could do so if I asked. I dont even know what Google+ is (since, as I might have mentioned, the site wouldnt let me join it) but I suppose it does grate me to see people going on about how great somthing I cant use is, thats a natural human response.

I thought on this site you wanted people to talk about things?

To say "why post unless you have something positive to say about Google" is a funny attitude to me. I wish that they would bring Lycos back anyway.

 

So lemmie get this straight. You're upset that Google+'s trial group got filled up and you couldn't get it? Then, when somebody gives you a link to get in, you refuse because you have a grudge against Google for not letting you in when you wanted?

Holy shit.

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I'm in G+, but I don't follow anyone but some of the people that I know. Even then, I don't really visit that site much.

 

Just a reminder that people have to be actively participating in the derailment of a thread for that thread to actually get derailed.