Google+ is on life support... Android and YouTube to be seperated from Google+?!?

ktchong · Apr 26, 2014

OMG! I'm so happy!

It seems like Google+ has lost the battle to Facebook and is now on life support, and Google may just gives up on Google+.

If Google+ Heads to the Grave, at Least It

Italo · Apr 26, 2014

I was really annoyed the first time I went to leave a comment on the Play Store and was told I had to have a Google+ account to post. I set one up and never used it. Having the option for all of Google's services to work together makes a lot of sense. But, the way they forced it on users was very frustrating. I still get annoyed with YouTube when I have to sign out of my Google+ YouTube account to get into my original account, just because I chose not to use my real name on YouTube.

kate · Apr 26, 2014

It looks like they are reducing the number of employees working on Google+ but keeping it around.

Less integration sounds nice though.

zuben el genub · Apr 26, 2014

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I think people are tired of being told to share all and are starting to push back.

Google doesn't need that much for an ad profile. It would be to Google's advantage to let people pick and choose how much or how little they want of the services. There would be far less resentment than "opt in to everything"
and more cooperation with the services the user picks.

JIMV · Apr 26, 2014

I avoided it as much as I can and never, ever use it by choice...

Clementine_3 · Apr 26, 2014

I'm really curious about the plan for GV now, it was going to be rolled up into Hangouts...maybe it will live on as an independant app/service? I hate Hangouts, never use it and probably never will, but I do use GV so that would be great as far as I'm concerned.

nickdalzell · Apr 26, 2014

i quite like Google+ (not nearly as cluttered and glitchy as Facebook, no game invite annoyances, better targeted ads that are more relevant--i can't tell you how many times i sent feedback to Facebook insisting i'm vegan and a deer lover and yet i still get ads for hunting, steak, and suggested pages for deer hunting while G+ gets it right and suggests vegan cooking sites, etc)

i just hate the Play Store and associated apps and prefer Samsung and Amazon alternatives--but sadly Google seems jealous and is making those go the way of the dinosaur with the Galaxy S5. if i must use a Youtube app i often use one of the old versions that are pre-Google.

chanchan05 · Apr 27, 2014

Personally I prefer G+ over Facebook. It just didn't caught on because FB was already huge when it got in.

pool_shark · Apr 27, 2014

I like Google +, it's my preferred social media site.

DragonSlayer95 · Apr 27, 2014

I actually have nearly no use for g+ aside from AF's g+ group which I very rarely follow on.

If it does happen to die out like MySpace did some odd years ago, won't exactly hurt my feelings as I'm just not a social network person anymore.

funkylogik · Apr 27, 2014

I'd be really hurt if g+ died but it honestly won't happen .
This whole thing stems from an article by a dude who used g+ before they introduced "communities" and who isn't a member of one so to him, g+ seems like a barron waste ground. That's half the beauty of it, you have to actively find something you're interested in for it all to fit into place. Like real life, interests and interesting people don't just come looking for you.
Nothing is "in your face".
As a user, g+ to me is thriving and the fact that some pretty high up "googlers" use the site gives me confidence that it isn't "walking dead".
Maybe Google will spend less resources on it because it's pretty good as it is?

I don't know if Google ever intended it to compete with Facebook but in my eyes it's a completely different genre and what I love most about it is that none of my real-life friends use it :cool:

:beer:

funkylogik · Apr 27, 2014

DragonSlayer95 said:
I actually have nearly no use for g+ aside from AF's g+ group which I very rarely follow on.

If it does happen to die out like MySpace did some odd years ago, won't exactly hurt my feelings as I'm just not a social network person anymore.

To be fair mate the AF G+ community is a bad example. I was one of the first to try and breathe some life into that community but I failed badly lol. Whenever I check up on it it's just a wasteland with the occasional tumbleweed of spam

Communities, like forums, need good moderation and lively members :thumbup:

chanchan05 · Apr 27, 2014

Yep, even game devs are turning to G+ because it's cleaner, and it's easier to reach your customers. Your posts aren't buried by an avalanche of promotions and games, it gets sorted properly and people can set special alerts for it.

funkylogik · Apr 27, 2014

Games, apps, roms, its a great way to run a beta test group

amarie82 · Apr 27, 2014

I personally love G+ I use it way more then fb!

funkylogik · Apr 27, 2014

Hmm ok funky things are happening...

funkylogik · Apr 27, 2014

amarie82 said:
I personally love G+ I use it way more then fb!

Me too but I also use it in a different way and for a different purpose than fb

DragonSlayer95 · Apr 28, 2014

Well when I do hop on g+, typically I do see half the stuff that funky posts.

Pretty entertaining for a night of drinking :rofl:

amarie82 · Apr 28, 2014

funkylogik said:
Me too but I also use it in a different way and for a different purpose than fb

I use the pic upload but I love the stuff ppl put on there. Its more of a grown up site. No drama or the nonsense that ppl put on fb!

funkylogik · Apr 28, 2014

DragonSlayer95 said:
Well when I do hop on g+, typically I do see half the stuff that funky posts.

Pretty entertaining for a night of drinking :rofl:

i aim to please lol :beer: hope you saw my karaoke performance before the vid got pulled

amarie82 said:
I use the pic upload but I love the stuff ppl put on there. Its more of a grown up site. No drama or the nonsense that ppl put on fb!

Exactly. I use it more like a forum site. I love the communities and yeah (most) people are more inclined to put up interesting stuff for the world to see instead of, as on Facebook, telling their friends what they had for dinner

Colchicine · Apr 28, 2014

The difference between G+ and FB is: FB is where you go to be "friends" with people from high school, and your family. G+ is where you go to meet new people and people you actually WANT to talk to.

My real life social interactions are increase way more than it ever did with FB.

I find that the criticisms I see about G+ are from people like at the beginning of this thread: animosity about Google's services integration. I have not yet encountered someone that used both FB AND G+ equally and decided they preferred FB.

funkylogik · Apr 28, 2014

^this
Although I've never met face to face anyone I met on g+ since most of them are in different countries but people are nice on there, just today I got a parcel from a dude on g+, vaping (e-cigarette) stuff and ive never met him.
Last year I needed urgent advice about an injured pet, put up a post and pretty soon I was chatting to a qualified vet.
A dude in Malaysia is sending my wife some otterbox cases for her phone.

Facebook is where my real life friends moan about stuff and bitch about each other lol. None of my real friends know what a custom rom is so g+ is a cool place to chat to people with the same interests plus it's made me more understanding of other cultures (the US for example)

Stuntman · Apr 28, 2014

I happen to use G+ a lot. I would have preferred that Google did not force everyone to get a G+ account. There was a huge backlash when they did that with YouTube. I think they should have given the option and not keep hounding me to unify everything. I have a separate YouTube account which I don't really use, but got annoyed when every time I used YouTube, it seems to ask me to pick an account (G+ or YouTube) as had an account on both system. I got fed up and just defauted to G+.

Clementine_3 · Apr 28, 2014

^^^Exactly.
I do use G+ and like it, I just hate that everything Google has to be linked to it. I did start using my G+ for YouTube but one of these days will go back to my old sign-on.

I wish my family would use it, but they won't and I quit FB so we are down to texts now. I use Twitter but they don't.

Skipdawg · Apr 28, 2014

Hardly ever use Google + for anything. None of my family and friends ever took to it so I could care less if it goes bye bye. LOL

The concept was good but Facebook already had the bigger following. I even quit using Twitter last March. Did not see the point of trying to maintain that too. Droped MySpace December 2009.

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