Re:Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet
by groby_b on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @08:00PM
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1) Hm. I usually just click on "Ripples", and I see the entire _chain_ of shares. All the way back to the first poster. We can debate the discoverability of that feature, but it's definitely there.
2) That, again, is debatable. It's certainly imaginable that the discussion about his article is more interesting to people than the actual article. It's true for this article, too - we're discussing it here, not over on his site.
3) There's no accounting for taste.
Going from there to "Google+ is a bad service" at least deserves a "for Jon Mitchell" qualifier. "is going to mess up the Internet" is pure link bait.
"Have fun flaming, +Friends" at the closing of an article makes it pretty clear he's not really interested in any discussion anyways.
2) That, again, is debatable. It's certainly imaginable that the discussion about his article is more interesting to people than the actual article. It's true for this article, too - we're discussing it here, not over on his site.
3) There's no accounting for taste.
Going from there to "Google+ is a bad service" at least deserves a "for Jon Mitchell" qualifier. "is going to mess up the Internet" is pure link bait.
"Have fun flaming, +Friends" at the closing of an article makes it pretty clear he's not really interested in any discussion anyways.