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willief · 10 months

I thought this was r/funny, not r/funnyfourmonthsago.

melance · 10 months

That tumbleweed is in one of my circles!

Frix · 10 months

That depends on your friends I guess. My G+ is pretty full all the time.

thecoshman · 10 months

I like G+

Google know how to place adverts so that they don't piss me off

ferna182 · 10 months

meh. i use it daily... sure it's not as active as my facebook... but you know what? i ignore about 85% of the posts that appear on my "news feed" on facebook because they are either spam, teenage complains, first world problems, stupid bullshit, funny things from the internet straight from 1995, etc... while on google+... well... it's a sausage fest, yeah, but the vast majority of people there are people related to the computer industry... and for myself, being a software engineer (like the majority of people there), kinda feels like home. i find 95% of the posts to be insightful, interesting, etc.

Chobeat · 10 months

Hi Zuck.

JTHipster · 10 months

Google+ got me off facebook man. Admittingly, its empty as shit. Now I talk to people normally.

zanduby · 10 months

Then you obviously aren't doing it right. Mine is updating with something new almost every 5 secs.

alienangel2 · 10 months

Do people really have this problem? My G+ feed seems to have more stuff on every day than my FB feed.

Willy_Tee · 10 months

Right, I forgot that still exists...Even though I went batshit crazy when I got in early...

[deleted] · 10 months

I actually use Google+ and upvoted this anyway...

Tooch10 · 10 months

I used to use it daily when the mass Reddit migration happened and it was ok, but very few (like three or four) of my Facebook friends switched over. Even they used it for a couple weeks and disappeared. I think G+ should not have been invite-only on launch day so more people could have joined. Now it just seems like the friendly and welcoming vibe of meeting new people that existed back in July/August is gone and it's just a few cliques that talk to each other. I haven't really used it now for about a month because I lost interest in it.

RadicalRaid · 10 months

I'm doing my part to fill my G+ stream, but only one other person is joining me. So basically, we're just talking back and forth to each other when sharing stuff.

It's a special kind of social networking I guess.

laetus · 10 months

They have tumbleweed on Google+?

monkeypickle · 10 months

Sweet jellybean jelly, but I love that folks think that Google+ is a graveyard. I end up following links/starting conversations via my circle feeds at a far, far higher rate than I do in Facebook (where I'm effectively ignoring 90% of the content).

The other beautiful thing about Google+ - Getting in on at launch meant that many of the folks I'd never have a chance to converse with (comic book folk, musicians, etc) not only added me back, but I've made a ton of professional and friendly connections I'd never have been able to make via Facebook.

TassieTiger · 10 months

Facebook is for Family, and they can stay there

Twitter is 4 the rtrds

G+ is where I get all the good discussion.

antrover · 10 months

Wow. We're still talking about G+'s lack of activity? It's kind of like saying, "All my friends are boring, therefor, all people are boring".

Facebook is filled with Myspace-like posts. Just look at the frontpage of reddit and you'll find all those immature and boring Facebook wall screenshots.

Examples of current facebook screenshots on the homepage of reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/mowi1/guys_moments_of_silence_please/ http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/moiok/im_really_good_in_bed/ http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/mosom/name_censorship_failure/ http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/mou94/the_only_reason_to_get_a_tattoo/

Remember when it took time for a service to become popular? Twitter, Facebook and Myspace didn't rise to fame overnight either. Give it time.

Also: People don't seem to know how to spell on Facebook.

Perk456 · 10 months

Does anyone else see Goodsprings from Fallout?

rapax · 10 months

You must be doing it wrong. G+ has recently started cutting into the time I spend of reddit. So many things on the front page turn up in my stream or on "whats hot?" first. Way more going on than I ever saw on facebook.

Awesomeade · 10 months

This is not a criticism of the service, but a criticism of the advertising. I vastly prefer Google+ and when I have the option of contacting someone through G+ or facebook, I use G+. I only hope that eventually enough people I care about get a G+ account for me to justify deleting my Facebook.

Triox · 10 months

You obviously don't know of the My Little Pony community on google+. The only time my stream is dead and not constantly being updated is 4:00 am in the US.

[deleted] · 10 months

I'm sick and feeling like shit but had to chime in on this: bullshit.

Google+ is freaking awesome. They are doing the right things. They're isolating game/quizzes and other bullshit form your main stream. You can pick and choose circles with different rules that fit your needs.

For instance, it suggests people not only because you went to same school, worked at the same place, or so forth. They also suggest people based on some black magic algorithm that just make sense. I'm fairly technical person and right now my main stream is very, very active with RELEVANT information. As soon as some entity starts with some nonsense, boot them out of the circle and problem solved. They recently added G+ pages and a whole lot of business have started their pages which you are free to ignore.

To say that G+ is dead, it's simply bullshit.

[deleted] · 10 months

I have never used facebook but use google+ :) feelsgoodman. I mainly use it for work.

kcufsiht · 10 months

Man Google hangouts are the fucking business. HD multiple video conferencing and you can add a moustache. Yes, kiss my balls Skype and Webex. Neither of you can add a moustache. GAME OVER.

altamont123 · 10 months

Meanwhile, in Megs bra!

blackyoda · 10 months

It was so fucking retarded that for the first month all of the posts were stupid vacation photos from Sergy.

dserfaty · 10 months

Interestingly enough, it looks like all the people that I would not add on Facebook (new people from work for example) I add on G+, especially since we use Google Hangout a lot in my team/company. I find it that the circles concept makes it just easier to group people. I think that's the way they can build their network, get people to use it for different circles of people then the other people will get drawn to it or added naturally.

pikacz · 10 months

g+ sux donkey balls

TheUnknownFactor · 10 months

I'm curious what will happen when Android Ice Cream Sandwich becomes more mainstream. Most of google's pushing for Google+ really hasn't gone public yet (ie: integration with youtube etc).

I'm not saying Google+ will be golden this time next month, but I haven't quite written it off yet.

new_to_the_game · 10 months

they tried to recruit me a couple days ago

r1st0 · 10 months

I read an article the other day that had an interesting idea about google+. It said it was never suppose to be a competitor to facebook really. Google is funded by ad revenue, they made 33.3bn off ads. This mixed with their ability to integrate their web apps to work together makes google+ more of a persona for your web searches. It's basically there to know who you are so the google search engine can find better results for you and to better market to you specifically. They threw in the social network because they could, but I don't think they intended on competing directly with facebook.

stoicsmile · 10 months

There is a story of a woman who lived in the Old West who wrote poetry and tied it to tumbleweed. It would drift out across the prairie and occasionally, a wandering cowboy would find one. I always thought that was a very beautiful medium of art. It is both desperate and lonely, but also intimate and hopeful. It either reaches no one or just one, lonely, lost person.

Maybe I should start writing poems on Google +

Edit: Couldn't find a source that said if this story was true, but I did find this poem that tells the story I heard.

sanfranman · 10 months

I'd rather have a small enthusiastic community than every Tom, Dick and Harry.

dem_onions · 10 months

Google failed to attract the religious zealot crowd, thus the # of screenshots of face-palm inducing conversations aren't being posted on reddit. why be a part of a social network if you can't make fun of everyone in your social circle and seem amazing in comparison?

bicyclemom · 10 months

I actually had to cull my circles because I got too much traffic on Google+.

lowmigx3 · 10 months

Time get my bug catching net. I need to upgrade my wooden shield to be ready to enter Lanayru Mines successfully.

[deleted] · 10 months

scumbag imgur - gives me Download Full Resolution link.

Photo is exactly the same size.

randominate · 10 months

I've removed people from my circles because Google+ is so busy. Whoever made that pic is probably forever alone on all social networks and their Facebook account is only busier because their mom posts on it.

Foxxx24 · 10 months

eventually something will take down facebook, but i dont think it will be google+

jalangen · 10 months

Hipsters can have the best of both worlds with G+. They used it before most other people and can continue to use G+ without it becoming mainstream.

Jonmad17 · 10 months

They have tens of millions of members. It's obviously not Facebook big, but it's far from empty.

4nz · 10 months

Just deleted my G+ account yesterday.

TrancePhreak · 10 months

We just want you to think it's like that so dbags like the OP don't go there.

BreakingBad86 · 10 months

I see this post every once ina while, but I when I see it, I upvote. It gives a good chuckle

mentat_emre · 10 months

Search something which you have interested in, someone will share a circle. Add the circle u ll have 500 people in one sec

Patedam · 10 months

http://www.reddit.com/r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu/comments/jgbei/meanwhile_on_google_true_story/

:(

KALASH69 · 10 months

You know I'd much rather be in a quiet, slightly derelict town then a huge bustling city.

omnibot80 · 10 months

You're not doing it right

dalittle · 10 months

how long before facebook becomes a myspace?

moghua · 10 months

I love google+, because the only people I know who use it are my nerdiest friends. Essentially I use facebook to keep in touch with my family and google+ for everything interesting and useful.

Da_Fuck · 10 months

Facebook and Google + got me off my computer to enjoy with my parents,relatives and friends! Yaay!

plutPWNium · 10 months

Goodsprings?

Crimyote · 10 months

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shasta0masta · 10 months

GIVE IT TIME <3

rangerkozak · 10 months

Diaspora!

dumbledorkus · 10 months

Honestly, Google+ is still 18 or over. Pretty idiotic since it seems that most of Facebook is below 18.

goebs86 · 10 months

this reminds me of warcraft. its not as good as the alternative. but it sucks to leave when so many people are already there.

inb4shitstorm · 10 months

Somebody photoshop a solitary hipster into that picture. Preferably one with an iPhone who wouldn't be caught dead with an android phone.

joeanon · 10 months

google+ reminds me of the metric system

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