i am also looking for one
here's a little workaround
https://plus.google.com/u/0/me
Lets you sign up from there.
edit: not working anymore, only allows you to build your profile :(
I've been on it for a week
I've been on it for a week now. It's a very clean version of facebook (no games or quizzes or little ads on the side). Your friends can be added into different groups (circles) and you can choose what to share with which circle.
They have a video chat system called Hangout which is nice but I'd like to try it out with more people to see how it holds up.
If you have an Android phone you can download the Plus mobile app which allows you to setup Huddles, which is like group messaging/chatting. I havent played with that yet, though a friend tells me its a good feature when you have a bunch of friends and want to communicate at the same time.
I had invites until Friday, but now they've disappeared. I heard it might be opened up soon but if I get any invites I'll head back over here and let you know.
Not to sound like I'm against
Not to sound like I'm against this, because I'm actually really excited about it, but Facebook was really clean in the beginning too, and I know that the games are coming to Plus because they have found the framework for them in the code.
Also, circles are just like friend lists in Facebook with a nicer and more prevalent interface.
I'm looking forward to hangouts, huddles, and a company that I trust a lot more with my information than Facebook.
what
what is google+
Maybe you should google google+
Maybe you should google google+? Just a thought.
Questions like this will get
Questions like this will get you a Google-.
I think it is a perfectly
I think it is a perfectly legitimate question.
Let me
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No Mgoboard!
Don't click that link!
Abort, Retry, Fail?
http://tinyurl.com/3msgujb
Hopefully
It's not another flop like Google Wave. Wave was an exceptional idea but they did a terrible job of exposing it to anyone but the social network's cutting edge. I really like how clean it is compared to any current websites. I'm really excited to get an invite and try it out. If anyone has available invites please feel free to send me one :D! jermrs@gmail.com
if anyone is sending out invites is love one as well. its my username at gmail.com, thanks
if anyone is sending out invites is love one as well. its my username at gmail.com, thanks
Google+
With Google+, it seems that they are trying to compete directly with facebook instead of creating their own unique social networking system. That being said, after trying it out for a few days, it definitiely has some good ideas with my favorite being their circle system. One of the problems with facebook is sorting out all your friends and family and Google+ seems to be focusing a lot on this area. It is also nice to be in complete control of who and what people see on your profile page.
I'd like to et an invite an.
I'd like to et an invite an. Try this out. So if anyone is willing jpswanso@Oakland.edu I'd appreciate it
HAIL!
Is anyone able to get in
Is anyone able to get in right now, or have they exceeded capacity?
If not, I'd greatly appreciate an invite, thank you:
I like it - a lot.
I like Google+ a lot. With the "circles" you have much more control over who sees what than you do in fb or twitter, and its much easier to filter only the stuff you want to see. The hangout feature (live video chat) just works. fb doesn't have this at all and it is much easer to use than Skype.
Unfortunately, Google has turned off invites due to insane demand, but I expect they will be turned back on soon.
This is a good, if kinda long, backgrounder on Google+. Worth the read.
Been off of fb for about 7 months now
Was invited to Google+ by a friend that works for the company about a week ago. Overall, not really that impressed. It's another social network...
I would give out invites to all that are asking, but I have not seen any invites give as of yet.
I have a Fandom Endurance III merit badge
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Been on it for four days so far. Hard to evaluate a social network when I only have two other friends on it right now
It is cleaner than Facebook and the circles are easier to use. But, Facebook does essentially the same thing (and more) it's just that setting up the groups and permissions in FB take a little time
I've essentially split my Facebook into friends/family, coworkers, gaming friends, and my music friends. Once I set up those groups, it was just a matter of placing people in a group.
I think google+ just does a better job o putting their "circle" idea out in front as a central piece of the network, but I really don't see anything too innovative about it
Right now it's clean without the ads, but I expect google to start placing ads all over soon for revenue. That will be the true test if I stick around or not.
On Facebook and Google+ being essentially very similar
Also, for those with the courage to ask for detail (and not necessarily the initiative to do a search) the Google blog goes into a little more detail on Google+'s features.
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Very true.
I know a lot of people dislike Facebook games, but I happen to enjoy playing one or two at a time. They are typically something I could do during a five minute break at work so they don't consume my life and don't need to be installed on my hard drive
So having said that, I think google+ is missing out without games. If they could find a way to let people play games without spamming the rest of the known universe they might have something.
facebook ads
I find them super annoying. Especially b/c FB is using my information (posted or not) to select ads on my page. FB is sketchy w/ privacy issues. I think google should differentiate itself from FB by avoiding these issues.
Every man at some point is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man, is that in the midst of that battle he does not lose himself. This game is not over, this battle is not over. So let's hear it .
Considering
They do this with your gmail, that's unlikely
You always have the option of
You always have the option of deleting your Facebook account.
but then how am i going to be
but then how am i going to be able to see what all 1,241 of my friends are up to? Do you mean i'll actually have to talk to them to find out?
Touchdown Michigan!
" Do you mean i'll actually
" Do you mean i'll actually have to talk to them to find out?"
That sounds...exhausting.
Mitch mcgary
Visits michigan?
That is more interesting than evaluating search engine companies attempt to do social. Makes me think about Facebook clunky doing geolocation. Can't be worse than yahoo's attempt to " reinvent" itself.
Still, the google guy is blue so he must know what he is doing here.
If anyone's interested
In Google's early thoughts.
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2
If you have a friend with no invites
I was able to create an account today when a friend shared a photo album with my gmail account. Pretty easy workaround.
invites out
I've been able to invite people by sharing something I've posted with their e-mail address. If it's still working, everyone who posted an e-mail should have an invite.
On a side note, I was looking through my family's old photo albums a couple of weeks ago and found a handful of pictures and a ticket stub from a 1953 Washington vs. Michigan game in Michigan stadium. I snapped some pictures with my phone, so that's what I picked to share.
Google+ is still evolving...but I like the features and the clean look it's got. Making circles is very useful, and I've been playing with Sparks, too.
Enjoy.
Edit: If anyone else needs an invite, let me know. I'll check back from time to time.
yes, please!
yes, please! (iyq289atgmaildotcom)
Alrighty, should be sent. Let
Alrighty, should be sent. Let me know if it worked.
I really appreciate your
I really appreciate your trying, but I haven't received anything...
Some others have had luck
Some others have had luck going to the site and signing up, even if they didn't get an e-mail. That might be worth a try,
That would be awesome.
That would be awesome. cooper04@gmail.com
Thanks.
Done, and done.
Done, and done.
I can haz invites?
sent
sent
nater56@gmail.com
Thank
You got it!
You got it!
Got ur message
and I am in.....mucho gracias
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Can I have an invite?!
Please?! Thanks!
mrkmares@gmail.com
Oh, I suppose...
Oh, I suppose...
An invite would be much
An invite would be much appreciated
'M-Burns', I'll never have better facial hair than this...
It's sent
It's sent
Thanks!
Like others below, I didn't get an email, but by visiting plus.google.com, it let me join (unlike in the past when it just let me submit my name to a waiting list).
Thanks!!!
'M-Burns', I'll never have better facial hair than this...
Invite please
Please send me an invite if you can. Email: dschenk with the domain being umich.edu. Thank you.
You got it
You got it
Thanks but...
Thanks for trying, but I have not gotten any email about Google+ (not in the spam folder or anywhere else). If you can, how about you try sending an email to a GMail account of mine- username: ldschenk (with the usual gmail domain). If you're out of invites or something like that, then that's perfectly fine.
Regardless of the result, tkhank you for this.
Note, I don't simply write out the email address due to trying to protect myself from web crawlers that will find the email address and hit it with even more spam than I already get.
if anyone is feeling charitable: andyrsnow@gmail.com
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