Google Plus

Anyone managed to get onboard yet?

[if so where is my invite?]

What are your thoughts on it so far?

Ive played around with it. Not much to do on it with hardly any users. Looks like a pretty clean interface.

If you want an invite PM me your email address

what is it? is it just googles version of facebook?

pretty much

https://plus.google.com/up/start/?sw=1&type=st

yeah Ive had a look. looks goood! Google rock

im on it but not really sure where to start

but anyway, im sick of changing platforms and setting up profiles every year, so will sit on it a little for now.

I got an invite email but I deleted it. Got enough shit to keep on top of as it is. 

If you want an invite PM me your email address

miuch appreciated

A mate of mine got in the other day but he reckons it's not that great yet because the privacy settings are terrible!

It basically automatically adds anyone on Google+ who has ever had some form of contact with your Gmail account, you can't accept or decline the list. So he had a whole heap of old clients and people he doesn't really need or want to have on his contact list, which isn't ideal.

Plus there is no option to hide your email address nor any way to remove your profile from search engines like Facebook allows.

Add in the fact that Google are consolidating all of their services now into one Google account and it must be set to public with your full name and gender as by July 31st they will be deleting all Google accounts that are set to private.

Add in the fact that Google are consolidating all of their services now into one Google account and it must be set to public with your full name and gender as by July 31st they will be deleting all Google accounts that are set to private.

Where'd you find that info?

Where'd you find that info?

Hmm, I can't remember exactly where it was, Gizmodo feed I think, but if you do a Google search it's reported all over the place.

Here's the official line:

http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/answer.py?hlrm=en&answer=1192471


I'm actually quite surprised that Google haven't made the announcement more visible, such as displaying it prominently on their frontpage; as it could and will affect a lot of people...I had my profile set as private before (as you do) and I would have been none the wiser if it wasn't for my RSS feeds.

Wow... Lame.

Oh well, no loss to me. I just have a Google account for my work (adsense/analytics) and for a gmail account I use for testing formatting of HTML emails.

i am in, but there is a whole lot of nothing going on there.

not sure if it is the facebook killer it has been made out to be. will see what happens once more people are on board.

i remember being a my spaz natzi and laughing at facebook when i joined. it would have taken 2 or 3 yrs for fb to catch on .

I'm on it and not a lot is going on at all!

There's not a lot going on because there's no advertising, no event spam and no game spam

got a handful of random people add me, when i check them out they are interstate promoters with nothing but event spam in their feeds. only have two people actively posting stuff really...

People still use it?

only a couple of people i know are actively posting stuff in my feed. i only checked it as i got a notification in my gmail about it, first time i had been in for a couple weeks...