Re:The Tragic Beauty of Google+
by ctide on Thursday May 16, 2013 @03:15PM
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If this was the case, they'd fix the accounts system. Nothing I do on the web is ever tied to my G+ account because I have 5 different Google accounts and it's a crapshoot which one I'm signed into at any given time. One thing is for sure, though, that I'm never signed into the one that my Google+ account is tied to since you couldn't use Google apps accounts at launch to sign up for G+.
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You're in the minority and I'd suspect your anomalous data is lost in the noise.
While I think Google+ came out the gate as a budding Facebook killer, and given the initial internal alignment of the company tying everyone's yearly bonus to its success, I suspect Google was hoping for exactly that, no matter how much retro conning the tech bloggers spin.
Because the two things that killed Google+'s chances were first the ridiculous real names debacle which was a literal turd in the punchbowl corporate move, followed shortly thereafter by internally flip-flopping and reassigning the bonus for Google+'s success to the Google+ team and the Google+ team alone, safely ensconced away from the googler scum in their tawp sekrit(tm) tower on the Googleplex.
This. This. This. Constantly I am being pleaded with to create a Google+ account, although I already have one. Google's inability to effectively combine accounts is one of my greatest frustrations.