Re:Nonplussed
by saidajigumi on Sunday November 10, 2013 @03:58PM
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Agreed. When G+ first hit the scene, before Google's big push to own and publish the unified identity for every physical human, Circles looked like a promising experiment. A lot of people I know who were fed up with Facebook started exploring Google+ because of that.
Then Google changed directions entirely (along with the big management shakeup that flipped Google from a bottom-up org to a top-down org) and those ideas were effectively killed. And every single person I knew who'd been toying with G+ dropped it like a hot potato.
Please explain how the idea of circles has been killed.
I just went to the YouTube comment box, and right there is the control for what circles to publish to: http://imgur.com/3ZEB9Th
The main problem for me that in different circles I might have different persona (different name, different image, some parts of my identity not exposed - like my workplace). It is mask I wear is important not who I'm talking to.
G+ lets you control what circles can see your employment info: http://imgur.com/nuBP0Qz
Personally I much prefer that G+ (and Facebook, for that matter) lets you interact with real people and not personas.
The problem is that in reality you have different faces: coworker, father, lover and etc. Neither of these are less real and many of them not necessary has real name, you can be "Your Name" (without surname) for your coworker, "Daddy" for your child and "Honey" for your lover.
I just try to explain why Google+ does not work for me at all.
They may not acknowledge it, but they certainly understand it. The whole value proposition of Circles was initially that'd you'd only share what you want with who you want.