G+_Kreg Steppe Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I love Leo, been watching and listening to Leo for fourteen years now. By now he's like family. But I have to say, it gets old hearing him repeatedly state on the Tech Guy podcast how little activity there is on Google+, as if Google had big plans for it, but it hasn't caught on. It sounds to me like an observation from someone who hasn't invested any time using Google+. My Google+ feed is an order of magnitude busier than my Facebook feed. I am appreciative of the TWiT and All About Android community pages here on Google+. Hopefully, the myth that no one uses Google+ will fade away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jon Hope Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Its exactly what you make of it. FB is filled with noise Google + is filled with intelligent like minded conversations! I'll take G+ over FB any day! Love the whole #Twit community! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jamie Thompson Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I have to agree. The friendships and knowledge from new contacts I've made in G+ far outweigh anything I've garnered from Facebook or Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dave Bach Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I couldn't agree more. If I wanted to know about your upcoming days off of work and how you plan to fill them with a family trip to grandma's for the holidays I'd go to Facebook. If I wanted to learn a lot of great stuff about a specific topic I'm actually interested then Google+ is my tool of choice. My only complaint is you can get pretty lost in the different communities you've joined and end up reading too much of the same content two or three times. It would be nice to have multiple bookmarks or highlighted unread posts. The notifications just aren't doing it for me because there are times I'd like to revisit a posting that I previously hadn't commented on. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Colin Willson Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 No "normal" people use Google+ and I'm pretty sure not many ever will. That being said I don't really use Facebook and am loving Google+ even more since the communities feature came out. When Leo is talking to 1,000,000+ people on the radio he is talking to non-geeks who currently don't have a reason to use Google+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ryan Rogers Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I've just recently started using g+ on a regular basis. Its not quite as active as my Facebook feed, but the quality of content is far superior. G+ feels like the community of makers and doers, while Facebook is the users. I prefer it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Kuroryusan Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 He used to be someone whose opinion I respected. He used to do his homework and inform himself about the weekly issues he discussed. Now it seems he is just coasting on his success and has gotten lazy just depending on the other talent they have brought in. More than one time he's had to correct himself because he had misinterpreted an article by simply commenting on the headline and what he thought it said. The TWiT show has long lost its place in my opinion as the flagship show of the network. Tom Merritt is by far a more professional and insightful host. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tom Paladino Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I made an honest effort a while back to use Facebook for more than just friends and family contact. I liked some pages, and subscribed to many people I found interesting. My main feed was terrible. Between bad or non-existent updates, it never showed me anything approaching a useful content stream. Now it's back to once in a while check ups on friends and family. There is far far better content on Google+. I agree though that it will be some time before "normal" people hop on board. Maybe that's for the best though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Schneider Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 For me, FB is where I keep track of people I know and G+ is where I meet people I want to know better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ricky Cash Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 The common statement that none of my friends are on G+ that's where Leo comes from. Which proves he has not really tried to use it. If your friends are on G+ you're using it wrong. I if it becomes as big as Facebook it will become as useless as Facebook has become. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jon Sullivan Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Everyone who uses Facebook hates it. Everyone who actually uses Google+ loves it. But expecting Google+ to be like Facebook is just getting it wrong. Google+ is a much better resource. Let Facebook be the place crap goes to settle. Let Google+ be the place quality engagement happens. No one is one Google+? Then why do I need to keep pruning my circles to avoid overload? And I don't understand why not having vast herds of people posting stuff I'm not interested in is a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ricky Cash Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I don't hate Facebook. It has it's uses. It's just that it's not compelling or even fun. You pop over to see if anybody has any new pictures of the baby or the dog or the cat. Then you run back to G+ and barge into some great ongoing conversation and have a good time. I have never even mentioned G+ to anyone I know personally and don't intend to. Facebook is a place. G+ is a place. The planet is big. Let's keep them separated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Steve Moss Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I agree that Google+ has found its foot hold. I log into Facebook once a month and Google+ several times a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Greenlee (Banjoman Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Its a little ironic isn't it? That Leo completely quit Facebook? It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Wallace Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 I certainly hope that Google doesn't do away with Google+ because they don't consider it a successful compared to Facebook. I don't like to compare Facebook and G+ in the same Social Network category. I use Facebook for keeping up with friends and family, and G+ for following tech news and other geeks. Twitter is good for regular news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ricky Cash Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Seems Google is all in on G+ Adding features and functionality at a steady pace. I fell like you do John Wallace Facebook for friends and family. G+ for everything else. I don't find Twitter to be useful, perhaps I just don't get it. When it comes to total user numbers you can never compete with friends and family. Google has to know by now that to try to compete with that is a loosing proposition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dale Moore Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 With the increase in ads in my stream, plus everyone I know "liking" companies in an effort to win free shit has a almost completely turned me off of Facebook. I've muted prolly 90 percent of my "friends". Before communities I was a lurker on G+, since conmunities my active engagement has gone through the roof. I don't need Leo Laporte to bless G+. If he's not getting it, then he doesn't get it. And it's his loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_William Scott Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Leo and John D. are getting stale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jon Sullivan Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 IMHO, Leo is great. John..... not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_William Scott Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 SN is where Leo is still engaged. Other than that? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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