Google+?

[Enforcer]

So, I'm not sure what the Mention [] tag does in EN World, but it messed up my Twitter handle as a result. My Twitter, to DM if you want Google+ invites, is jonleopold. No space.

 

[Ajar]

We're gonna try hangout this Thursday for gaming. I'm pretty exited how it works. We have been gaming audio only until now. Recommendation for a virtual tabletop would be MapTool (more fancy) or Gametable (pretty basic).

I find the MapTools interface pretty incomprehensible. I've never been able to construct even a simple map. I'll check out GameTable.

 

[Ebonyr]

I have some invites as well - just PM me

 

[Relique du Madde]

So, I'm not sure what the Mention [] tag does in EN World, but it messed up my Twitter handle as a result. My Twitter, to DM if you want Google+ invites, is jonleopold. No space.

This is what the mention tag does: [MENTION=396]Enforcer[/MENTION]

 

[jaerdaph]

Well, after trying it for a few days, I'm not sure Google+ is for me. I'm really not that impressed - it's a Facebook knockoff whose only real selling point is "it's not Facebook".

I'll give it some time and kick the tires some more, but I really don't see the point in adding yet another thing I have to check in with to my day.

 

[Janx]

Well, after trying it for a few days, I'm not sure Google+ is for me. I'm really not that impressed - it's a Facebook knockoff whose only real selling point is "it's not Facebook".

I'll give it some time and kick the tires some more, but I really don't see the point in adding yet another thing I have to check in with to my day.

I don't disagree. Since I joined it, and added darn near everybody i knew that it recognized to circles, I've seen ONE post by somebody.

Granted, I'm not a big FB poster. I rarely post anything up on it. But I usually see posts daily from other people.

G+ would be handier if it integrated posts from FB into itself.

Thats kind of the whole problem with all these social networks. I don't want 20 IM accounts and 20 social network accounts. I don't think anybody wants that. But the challenge is each of these sites does something to fracture the market or earn distrust.

 

[jaerdaph]

I will give Google+ this - the privacy and other settings are a lot easier to find, intuitive, and far less cryptic than in Facebook.

But Facebook still offers me far more and fits my lifestyle better.

 

[jaerdaph]

Then again there is an easier solution:

Turn off your notifications.

I will give this to Google+ too - it was far easier to turn these off than it is in Facebook. Just when I think I have email notifications (and I *loathe* email notifications) all turned off in Facebook, I get some FB email out of the blue for some bizarre or new feature I didn't know about and I have to go hunt down where exactly the setting is to turn it off in my account.

 

[Relique du Madde]

I don't disagree. Since I joined it, and added darn near everybody i knew that it recognized to circles, I've seen ONE post by somebody.

Granted, I'm not a big FB poster. I rarely post anything up on it. But I usually see posts daily from other people.

That's because you aren't following someone like Sean Bonner (Wil Wheaton got 10k people to follow him) who sends random picture and posts tidbits of info every few hours or random geek celebrities that who got over facebook and twitter and constantly hop to the new social network.

G+ would be handier if it integrated posts from FB into itself.

Thats kind of the whole problem with all these social networks. I don't want 20 IM accounts and 20 social network accounts. I don't think anybody wants that. But the challenge is each of these sites does something to fracture the market or earn distrust.

As long as Zuckerberg is an an enemy of Google then no.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Question to G+ users: Not long ago there was a flap about Google weeding out profiles with unacceptable names, people with multiple profiles, and the like. Have any of you encountered difficulty with that?

The reason I've drop FB (a few times, actually) was because the friend-management was never to my liking, and privacy is a pain to control. G+ circles and privacy management sounds like it comes a lot closer to what I'm comfortable with. However, if Google is explicitly preventing a single user from maintainting multiple accounts or pseudonymous accounts, that would be a big point against it in my book.

Basically, being a huge privacy nut (even in real life ) I'd want to maintain, for example, a gaming identity completely separate from my professional one. That way, if the social network company flubs everyone's privacy settings, well, all that's happened is that gaming circles are exposed to each other, and profesional circles are exposed to each other-- but gaming circles are not exposed to professional circles.

Is this just something that's not possible in G+? Is this truly a ToS violation, and is google actually strict about it? If so, have they publicly discussed exactly why?