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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by hackinthebochs on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @08:36PM (#2736627)
No, facebook is not in any way a "ghetto". If you saw what myspace degenerated to, to warrant the comparison, you wouldn't even begin to try to place that label on facebook.
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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by nhangen on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @09:50PM (#2736812)
exactly, and Google+ isn't so good that it's going to sweep FB users away. It's FB for geeks, and that's why this crowd likes it, but I don't think it's going anywhere close to where Facebook has gone.
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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by Caballera on Thursday July 07, 2011 @12:02AM (#2737087)
I agree, I find Google+. I don't see my non-Geek friends asking for invites to Google+, if anything they would be like "what's Google+?". Half the people I invited don't even use Google+ after the first day, but they are still religiously visiting FB.
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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by jamwt on Thursday July 07, 2011 @03:11AM (#2737561)
Just wait until that red box on that gray bar hovers over their every search. Their email. Maps. Maybe calendar.

It's like we've all forgotten who the 800 lb gorilla is! Google's launchpad is tree-mendous. The show is just getting started.

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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by nhangen on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:47AM (#2738616)
Google doesn't have a history of successful product dev in the social space, so I don't know why everyone assumes this time will be different.
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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by JanezStupar on Thursday July 07, 2011 @07:12AM (#2738019)
Well, if Google can't make it then everybody doing any kind of social networking software should just quit. Right Now.
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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by nhangen on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:49AM (#2738633)
I don't agree. The reason Google wouldn't make it is not because they don't have the firepower, but because they don't have anything to add to the space that isn't being done already. They just aren't sexy.

Will people use it? Sure, but I doubt that millions of users will actually leave FB for Google+.

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