Comments on: How Google+ Can Grow Without Killing Itself

By: Henry Louis

Henry Louis — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:36:52 +0000

Great insights! Hopefully google comes out with these and a lot more to make themselves standard in the social networking arena.

By: Jeanne Mayeux

Jeanne Mayeux — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:38:29 +0000

Google+ will be wildly successful because it is so intertwined with the Google tools most everyone uses all day long. Google+ will always be there lurking and following you everywhere. It will be irresistible to click the button and check in. The button is inside your Gmail, on the search page, in your Google Docs etc. I really like it so far.

By: Byron

Byron — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:29:08 +0000

Count me as social media burnout. I’m not interested in trying to sway the contacts I communicate with on FB over to Google+. In particular, I’m not about to get family and relatives to switch over to Google+ just when they have finally become comfortable using FB. Not going to happen. FB and Twitter are sufficient for me.

By: Chris Miller

Chris Miller — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:26:38 +0000

My 2% of a Washington – you’re right, in that they want our moms on G+ as their target, but they released it to the geeks first to test it out and come up with opinions like these. They want us, too! Just in a use-us-for-our-expertise-and-not-call-the-next-day kind of way. That’s why it’s invite only. We’re supposed to go crazy so we can win at the internet, then when we leave for the next shiny thing, our moms will finally get around to joining (for example, my mom joined Facebook three weeks ago).

By: Gabriele Maidecchi

Gabriele Maidecchi — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:37:04 +0000

Everyone talks about it, I did as well, even published a blog post about it (who hasn’t?). But let’s face it, it’s better to just use it. What will happen in 6 months? I don’t know, and I doubt anyone can (perhaps not even Google people). For now, let’s have fun, then, we’ll see.

By: Lisa Barone

Lisa Barone — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:05:26 +0000

That is an interesting distinction about the brands. Do they say anything in regards to why? Why is Google friend-only? It’ll be interesting to see how the tone changes over at Google+ once brands get access. Will it kill the fun parade?

By: Suzanne Vara

Suzanne Vara — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:40:32 +0000

Lisa

As always you rock and this article shows that even more. Let’s for a second focus on the 21 days, 21 – hell when I turned 21 I took full advantage of that and went to every single bar humanly possible, drank with anyone who would drink with me, I shared my thoughts on every bar I went to and with anyone who cared to listen to me. Google+ feels just like that. My stream is so filled with spam that I can barely bear to go over to it and the worst part is that I like Google+ but like with the having one too many hangovers that had me dead in the bed and hugging john, I have to find a happy medium.

This is a new tool. It is all access and people love that. It feeds the ego to have x amount of followers. We are in the party phase which we know after a while slows down

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:24:13 +0000

Joe are you getting stalked by a “Meg Geddes” too???

By: Christina

Christina — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:48:49 +0000

Love everything about this post. I think Google+ has the potential to be valuable, but I think that there are some functionalities it needs and some things they need to not need. Like Games for G+ needs to never happen in my book.

However, I’ve heard my friends pronouncing that they’re not planning on following or granting access to any brands with G+. Whether or not they succeed in that, who knows, but it’s interesting that people are already making that distinction.

I think G+ will earn a place in the social strategy eventually. And I’m really excited to see what they’ve cooked up for businesses. But I don’t see it replacing anything anytime soon.

By: Lisa Barone

Lisa Barone — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:48:36 +0000

Heh. Yes, there’s always that complaint, which is valid. :)