Oogle Your Gs

MrMonroe

so this is a thing

so far as I can tell after using it for a day is that it's a cleaner, ad-free, visually intuitive version of facebook only they added some totally sweet features that facebook has been neglecting to develop in favor of changing their layout in some way everyone hates every three months. Notably:

• Circles:
  * Everyone you're connected with over G+ can be categorized into one of your user-defined "Circles," so I've got one for people from law school, a general "friends" one, one for family, one for my clinic work, one for SE, etc. You can set pretty much any of your saved information from your profile picture down to your status updates to be shared with any range of people from "the entire internet" to only a single Circle. Just remember what happened to Anthony Weiner and be sure if you're gonna post dong pics to only check the "SE++" circle and not the one that has Andrew Breitbart in it. You can also use them to define invitees to group chats, which brings me to
• Voice and Video Chat
  * I should not have to explain this one
• Hangouts
  * Multi-user voice and video chat. Bitchin'! Apparently you can sync youtube videos over it so everyone is viewing the same thing simultaneously? I haven't tried it and it seems like a kind of limited application. I guess we could all stream the same youtube softcore and jerk off for each other on camera? It seems like there's probably a lot of potential here for presentation sharing that you could use to do video conferencing in a business environment if they decide to go that route, and I really hope they do, because they also included"
• Native Connectivity with other Google Apps
  * You got a Calendar, bitch, use it. Most of the people here might not care about this, but all of a sudden it is not necessary to buy a hundred fucking licenses for the entire suite of Microsoft Office for your company, you can just tell everyone to get a gmail account and use Docs and Calendar instead of Word and Outlook. Those platforms still aren't quite as robust as enterprise-class platforms like Outlook yet, but I look at Google and I look at Microsoft and it's pretty damn clear to me which one is the more reliable innovator.
• The mobile app for it is fucking slick, let me tell you what.
• Your parents aren't on it yet.
  * I do not think I can understand the importance of this point.

so here's the deal: they are still in "beta" mode right now, so it's an invite-only system for the time being, but you get unlimited invites, (so far as I can tell) so as they are in beta, let's do them a favor and stress test this bitch!

post yo e-mails, dudes, and people who are cool enough to have an account already can send an invite to you!

Baroque And Roll

I am willing to send hella invites.

Melding

i don't understand google plus, nor do i know how so many people found me on it. Frankly i'm confused and scared by the whole thing.

Dichotomy

hmm

getting involved in this would bring me significantly closer to completing the control google holds over me

Centipede Damascus

I've been inviting hell of people

like almost 50 people so far

Clint Eastwood

I want an invite but I don't want to post my email on here because it has my name in it. Sorry

I Win Swordfights

bryar.kelly@gmail.com

I would like an invite, please!

I am opposite cloudman.

Orikaeshigitae

whoa. hang on.

you can jerk off with other people?

Virgil_Leads_You

Google+ sounds like a good reason to create a secondary account.

TrippyJing

wait wait wait

invite me

it's this name at gmail

damn you, google

damn you to hell

iammattpleevee

Send me your emails and I can send out some invites as well.

Centipede Damascus

whoa did they just turn off invites again

I think they did!

zucchini

a circle jerk if you will

Druhim

I was skeptical of yet another social web app, but I have to say that so far I'm really digging G+ and the intuitive control it gives me over who sees what.

I Win Swordfights

Well ya know. Whenever they get turned back on, I'd appreciate one.

TrippyJing

zucchini wrote: »

a circle jerk if you will

:^:

Centipede Damascus

I tried to invite you the other day Bryar, I swear I did

Dichotomy

they must have seen the thread

I Win Swordfights

Hmm. You might have. I literally just created that email account.

I'll check my other one.

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skettios

g+ is amazing

skettios

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

whoa did they just turn off invites again

I think they did!

yup!
but I think you can still do the roundabout way that I was doing.
where you add them to a circle
make a post for that circle, check the box to email them.
then they'll be able to join when it opens again? or something? idk... magic to me

Garlic Bread

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

whoa. hang on.

you can jerk off with other people?

Aw fuck, the whole hand? That is genius!



Awesome!

Usagi

Uh, my emails is my real name so won't be posting it

Monroe, PM me yo stuff so I can find you

Rankenphile

I am quite intrigued by the possibilities of this new platform. I can already see a ton of potential.

Yukira

It's kinda neat so far.

Moriveth

If someone's rad enough to send me an invite, my email is Moriveth@gmail.com

Macro9

Looks like they disabled invites again.

BYToady

Send me an invite whenever they come back up.

obidaih is my gmail username.

Macro9

If people want to add me to a SE++ circle or a creepy internet guy circle just use my username@gmail

Scudo

I um, would appreciate an invite, if anyone's feeling charitable

mattdtutor at gmail dot com

Macro9

Melding wrote: »

i don't understand google plus, nor do i know how so many people found me on it. Frankly i'm confused and scared by the whole thing.

I just searched for Canadian Dinosaur what uses the internet and couldn't find you.

They must be magicians or know your unspoken name.

Macro9

Also, if you do happen to get an invite into this you probably won't get an email. Just go to the Google+ site and see if you're in.

Melding

Curse them!

To the rampart! we must defend ourselves!

Drew-B

This has probably been mentioned, but am I understanding this right, that others can't see which circles you've created? Like, if I were to make an SE++ circle and add you all, you wouldn't be identified to others as being in my "SE++ circle" right? Just as being in a circle in general

Centipede Damascus

Not unless you made your circles visible to others, no.

Macro9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocPeAdpe_A8

Drew-B

That does a good job of explaining why I like this

MKR

Not enough PA people in my PA forum circle.

Kochikens

My issue is that I don't want everyone I know in real life to know my username/internet handle and I don't want everyone I know on the Internet to know my real name. Therefore I'll still need 2 separate accounts for it. And I am too lazy to manage two more online accounts.

Scudo

that's...really clever. I like the way they're handling it. I've heard there was an issue where if someone in one circle "retweeted" (I don't know what G+ is calling it) something you posted, it will then show up in their circles etc etc

i.e. your sister is in your friends circle, you post a picture of you getting buck wild, she can potentially 'retweet' it to your family circle. I wonder if that has been patched out?