[Bobboau]

how many people here have heard of this? it's google's attempt to kill facebook twitter and skype in one swift and heavy blow, an actually competent service for once, as opposed to the last few abortive attempts at social networking that google have made.
I'm totally sold on it, BTW.
and if anyone wants invites I can make it happen.

https://plus.google.com/

[Nuke]

i dont like social networking at all. im good with computers mainly because i hate people so much. then you turn around and create something like facebook (same can be said for gui based oses) and screw it all up. further more back in the 90s when social networking was non-existent, and people who wanted to be on the internet had to learn actual html and find some hosting (there were a lot of free hosts out there at the time). now its sad that you can accomplish the same thing by signing up to a social networking site with no actual geekiness involved. it should be illegal for non-geeks to use computers. it makes me so pissed off that i could club a cute baby seal with another cute baby seal.

[Luis Dias]

Yeah, DOS LINE COMMAND FTW

[Bobboau]

so... would you like an invite then?

[Mars]

I'd love an invite: [email protected]

It looks like the doors are temporarily closed, but I assume that they'll let more people in over time.

[Pred the Penguin]

I've been invited by a friend, but I haven't got a chance to use it yet.
I just started using Facebook a month ago and that's hard enough to get the hang of...

[Bobboau]

Ursa: done

[Mars]

W00t, Thanks!

[Klaustrophobia]

social networking can go to hell.  i regret making a facebook account all those years ago.  how naive of me to think it would remain a non-intrusive, easy way to maintain contacts with school friends that i actually know.  but no, where there's money to be had, people will be data mined, have their info sold, and ad spammed.

[Mars]

Don't do it then, I fail to see the reason for the post.

[KyadCK]

I wouldnt mind checking it out personally, some of the stuff looks pretty cool.

[email protected]

[Bob-san]

I wouldnt mind checking it out personally, some of the stuff looks pretty cool.

[email protected]

You've Got Mail!

[KyadCK]

Thanks much Bob-San

[Jeff Vader]

http://xkcd.com/918/ <- I agree with this strip completely. (inb4 xkcd sucks etc)

[NGTM-1R]

Play Empire At War or use social networking sites.

...dunno. EaW still seems more interesting...

[mjn.mixael]

Yeah, I'm also sold on Google+

Very, very useful.

[Pred the Penguin]

Play Empire At War or use social networking sites.

...dunno. EaW still seems more interesting...

Please play EaW with mods... o_o Vanilla is sooo disappointing once you've tried any big mods.

Anyway, I mostly agree with you. Social networking sites like Facebook can be very boring unless there's someone I actually know that's online.

[Mongoose]

I technically have an account thanks to my brother's invite, but I haven't done anything with it other than briefly look it over.  The "circles" thing is an interesting concept, though it seems like it'll take some getting used to.

[NGTM-1R]

Please play EaW with mods... o_o Vanilla is sooo disappointing once you've tried any big mods.

Vanilla is disappointing without mods, but not as much as social networking.

[Fury]

Not exactly the smartest move to post email addresses as-is in public forums. I can only assume you've been already been datamined and added to even more spamlists than you were already.

As for Google+, it's in limited early public beta test where you apparently need to have public profiles or your profile will get deleted. Not really interested at this time. Let's see again when it's actually ready for use. I hardly ever use Facebook, so I dunno what G+ has to offer. And why is it called Google+, the name doesn't roll off the tongue that well.