Re:Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than y...
by znowi on Sunday November 17, 2013 @05:53AM
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> Internally, G+ is marketed as a unified login/account system
Wait, there's already Google account - a unified login. Is it not?
> though "Pages" continues to be a confusing and unclear term
Pages were meant to be confusing because you discourage multiple identities. Most people have no idea they even exist.
> I don't believe Google+ management is malicious, but they do seem woefully unaware of how internet-native communities behave.
I'd be glad to attribute it to stupidity, as well, but it's one big assumption to consider the whole upper management at Google+ (one of the crown jewels) "woefully" incompetent at the very subject they were put to manage.
Wait, there's already Google account - a unified login. Is it not?
> though "Pages" continues to be a confusing and unclear term
Pages were meant to be confusing because you discourage multiple identities. Most people have no idea they even exist.
> I don't believe Google+ management is malicious, but they do seem woefully unaware of how internet-native communities behave.
I'd be glad to attribute it to stupidity, as well, but it's one big assumption to consider the whole upper management at Google+ (one of the crown jewels) "woefully" incompetent at the very subject they were put to manage.