Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook

Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by gumby on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @07:27PM (#17922716)

It rapidly became clear that the burdens of curation of circles and figuring out which one to use made using GP too much effort. FB does have a mechanism like that but it's barely even known about, while the coarser "group" mechanism does seemingly 95% of what people would want out of circles.

One might consider it an example of "worse is better", though I'm not convinced.

(Wow, just checked and Google+ is still available. I'd thought it had already shut down like Orkut and Wave).

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Re:Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook by bradbeattie on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @09:39PM (#17923324)

In so much as Google added to "the burden of refinement", in some ways it didn't go far enough. If someone I know posts cat videos and boardgames reviews, and adds me to both Google+ circles, how am I to subscribe to one and not the other?

This problem is bidirectional: which posts of yours will you let me see and of those, which do I want to see. But this is an even heavier ask.

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