Author Topic: Any google+ invites? (Read 4455 times)

shmokes · « **on:** June 30, 2011, 01:13:04 am »

My brother asked me today if I had any connections with Google+ invites. Strangely I'd never even heard of it. Anyway he (and maybe I?) wants one. Anyone have one to give out?

Blanka · « **Reply #1 on:** June 30, 2011, 02:38:21 am »

OMG, do they start the invitation crap all over again? Thought Google had grown up by now. Reminds me of that early Gmail witchery group.

SavannahLion · « **Reply #2 on:** June 30, 2011, 02:40:58 am »

Read the paragraph and as soon as I saw the words "anti-Facebook" I was hooked. Didn't need to read any further.

Quote from: Blanka on June 30, 2011, 02:38:21 am

OMG, do they start the invitation crap all over again? Thought Google had grown up by now. Reminds me of that early Gmail witchery group.

Relax, it's not that bad. As popular as Google is, how else do you propose they get just enough people for beta tests and not overkill the whole process with too many?

newmanfamilyvlogs · « **Reply #3 on:** June 30, 2011, 06:36:20 am »

Quote from: SavannahLion on June 30, 2011, 02:40:58 am

Read the paragraph and as soon as I saw the words "anti-Facebook" I was hooked. Didn't need to read any further.

Quote from: Blanka on June 30, 2011, 02:38:21 am
OMG, do they start the invitation crap all over again? Thought Google had grown up by now. Reminds me of that early Gmail witchery group.

Relax, it's not that bad. As popular as Google is, how else do you propose they get just enough people for beta tests and not overkill the whole process with too many?

obligatory:

SavannahLion · « **Reply #4 on:** June 30, 2011, 09:48:20 am »

Not sure how you arrived at "not". There are different connotations here.

ChadTower · « **Reply #5 on:** June 30, 2011, 11:15:20 am »

Except for the slight difference that Myspace was never really considered a billion dollar mainstay tech company.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #6 on:** June 30, 2011, 11:42:59 am »

Quote from: pinballjim on June 30, 2011, 09:54:48 am

Would be kinda funny to watch Facebook turn into a wasteland like Myspace/Friendster/Classmates have.

Yup, there will always be "the new thing" .... and they will all turn to ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- eventually.

ChadTower · « **Reply #7 on:** June 30, 2011, 01:36:58 pm »

Quote from: Kevin Mullins on June 30, 2011, 11:42:59 am

Quote from: pinballjim on June 30, 2011, 09:54:48 am
Would be kinda funny to watch Facebook turn into a wasteland like Myspace/Friendster/Classmates have.

Yup, there will always be "the new thing" .... and they will all turn to ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- eventually.

Yeah, but how else am I going to see which chicks from high school got really fat or have 4 kids by 3 guys? Or which guys were too cool for college and are still working front retail at 35? That's all I really need to know.

lilshawn · « **Reply #8 on:** June 30, 2011, 08:31:43 pm »

Samstag · « **Reply #9 on:** June 30, 2011, 10:11:47 pm »

Quote from: cotmm68030 on June 30, 2011, 06:36:20 am

obligatory:

"On one hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch. On the other hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch!"

DaveMMR · « **Reply #10 on:** June 30, 2011, 11:22:13 pm »

I actually have way too much invested in Facebook to be dropping it anytime soon (and I'm guessing a lot of people feel that way), but I'm curious to see this Google+ in action. I briefly read up on it, but saw you can put "friends" in different categories and you can set what they see of your posts/pictures/etc. (Yes, I think you can do this on FB as well but nothing about that site is intuitive).

newmanfamilyvlogs · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2011, 11:24:38 pm »

Sometimes I wish I had enough of a social circle to need to group my friends like that.

DaveMMR · « **Reply #12 on:** July 01, 2011, 12:57:15 pm »

Quote from: cotmm68030 on June 30, 2011, 11:24:38 pm

Sometimes I wish I had enough of a social circle to need to group my friends like that.

Heheh, don't confuse FB friends with actual "Friends". I have maybe 200 people I'm friends with on the site; only 10 of them are people I actually see on a semi-regular basis. The rest are coworkers, old classmates, 'barely' acquaintances, distant relatives, etc.

Howard_Casto · « **Reply #13 on:** July 01, 2011, 03:46:09 pm »

I am proud to say that I've never opened a facebook, myspace, or whatever account.

I think the whole thing is creepy. If I want to talk to somebody, I'll make the damn effort meet them in person or at the very least call/email/pm them. If somebody wants to get ahold of me then they can do so. I don't need to constantly bombard the internet with photos of my lame family doing lame things peppered with announcments of all the current insignificant things that have happened in my life.

Besides, if I want to ramble on and on about stuff that most people don't care about I just come here.

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #14 on:** July 01, 2011, 04:02:41 pm »

I've never signed up for any of these type of sites either (with the exception of LinkedIn, but I'm not sure if that counts), although I think I will sign up for this one when it comes out. As I lose touch with more and more friends over time and the hassle of setting up parties/get-togethers, I can now see the benefit of these types of sites.

I'll gladly take an invite if anyone happens to have one

DaveMMR · « **Reply #15 on:** July 01, 2011, 07:58:03 pm »

Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 01, 2011, 03:46:09 pm

I think the whole thing is creepy.

It is a little creepy when you think about it. A lot of the stuff shared can come and bite you in the ass (there's a company that actually searches all this stuff and creates reports for employers about the kind of pictures you post and stuff you say).

However, with Facebook, I've actually been able to network with people for employment opportunities and also reconnected with people I haven't seen in over 20 years. It's different things to different people I suppose. I use it as a tool - and I'm very careful about what I post on these things.

hypernova · « **Reply #16 on:** July 03, 2011, 11:47:26 am »

Like Howard and Atom, I've not held an account on any of these sites, nor do I have any kind of personal desire to do so. However, as DaveMMR said, it could be an excellent networking tool. Which is something I sorely lack. I know very few people on a personal level, which can hurt in a tough job market. Fortunately I still have mine, so that doesn't currently matter.

If I ever do one of these sites, it'll be purely for networking reasons. I have better or more fun things to do than constantly update it with drivel and 80,000 meaningless pictures. I don't have much interesting to say. Then again, from the posts I've seen other people put, nobody does.

lilshawn · « **Reply #17 on:** July 03, 2011, 12:50:56 pm »

It was first allowing little 13 year olds to go on facebook that wrecked it, then all the retarded games.

If google has an 18 or older policy... I may consider it.

DaveMMR · « **Reply #18 on:** July 03, 2011, 01:26:58 pm »

Quote from: lilshawn on July 03, 2011, 12:50:56 pm

It was first allowing little 13 year olds to go on facebook that wrecked it, then all the retarded games.

There's a perfect workaround for that. Don't friend 13 year olds and don't play the games.

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #19 on:** July 03, 2011, 02:01:44 pm »

Quote from: hypernova on July 03, 2011, 11:47:26 am

Like Howard and Atom, I've not held an account on any of these sites, nor do I have any kind of personal desire to do so. However, as DaveMMR said, it could be an excellent networking tool. Which is something I sorely lack. I know very few people on a personal level, which can hurt in a tough job market. Fortunately I still have mine, so that doesn't currently matter.

If I ever do one of these sites, it'll be purely for networking reasons. I have better or more fun things to do than constantly update it with drivel and 80,000 meaningless pictures. I don't have much interesting to say. Then again, from the posts I've seen other people put, nobody does.

You may want to look at joining LinkedIn, it's made specifically for job networking. Simply by having an account there with my work background (with hardly anything in the description of what I do) and being connected to most of the people at my previous jobs, I've been contacted by a number of recruiters (from Netflix, Garmin, and a few others), and I'm not even looking for a new job

Gray_Area · « **Reply #20 on:** July 04, 2011, 01:03:01 pm »

Facebook is just AOL without the 'proprietary community' symbol. Yahoo hasn't skipped a beat, because they've always been web-based. Google is just getting on the wagon. I hope they blow Facebook out of the water, simply because Facebook's interface is FUGLY and gay.

HaRuMaN · « **Reply #21 on:** July 05, 2011, 10:28:49 am »

Quote from: lilshawn on July 03, 2011, 12:50:56 pm

It was first allowing people who aren't in college to go on facebook that wrecked it

Fixed

lilshawn · « **Reply #22 on:** July 05, 2011, 11:31:26 am »

Meh... 6 to one, half dozen to another.

Thumbs up

shmokes · « **Reply #23 on:** July 08, 2011, 11:06:01 pm »

I'm in. PM me an email address if you want an invite.

Edit: The link to invite people has suddenly disappeared. I sent three invites, but it didn't give any indication that there was a limit. I'll post again when the link returns.

AtomSmasher · « **Reply #24 on:** July 09, 2011, 12:28:51 am »

Yup, I got in as well and sent out one invite earlier. Looks like its closed again though.

SavannahLion · « **Reply #25 on:** July 24, 2011, 09:56:45 am »

Wow, the demand must be super high or the number of people they're letting in must be super low. Saw the "join" button, logged in and got the message they've exceeded their allocation for this round.

I don't think Gmail was even that hard to get in during testing.

shmokes · « **Reply #26 on:** July 24, 2011, 06:56:09 pm »

Quote from: SavannahLion on July 24, 2011, 09:56:45 am

Wow, the demand must be super high or the number of people they're letting in must be super low. Saw the "join" button, logged in and got the message they've exceeded their allocation for this round.

I don't think Gmail was even that hard to get in during testing.

That happened to me the night I received my invite. The following morning I was in. No biggie.


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