Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users 360
dkd903 noticed another amusing shot in the battle between G+ and Facebook. CNN is running a story where Facebook's director of game partnership Sean Ryan basically says Google+ has no users. The article is mostly about casual gaming on social platforms, which I am really sick of individually blocking.
Google+ (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't see it changing anytime soon either. Google+ misses all those things that make social network social. There's no pages either. I've noticed Facebook works nicely as some kind of a rss reader if you join the pages that interest you. Besides, I'm not quite comfortable with Google's datamining. They already have my searches, youtube views, analytics from everywhere of the internet..
He's Right (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Google+ (Score:4, Insightful)
Facebook's data mining is more insidious.
As for circles, being able to direct messages at friends, family, the world, is enormously useful. The problem is it means you have to decide on every post who you want to share it with. However, that means you know who every post is going to.
It's a feature (Score:5, Insightful)
Isn't no Farmville spam the entire selling point of Google+? Everybody I know using it is there precisely because it's NOT Facebook and doesn't have all the annoying spam (and even more annoying emo users) that make Facebook a wasteland of human stupidity.
Which is worse? (Score:4, Insightful)
I think I'll take Google+ if I'm forced to choose one.
Re:He's Right (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:He's Right (Score:5, Insightful)
There are no companies (users in Facebook speak) actively mining your content on Google+.
With one obvious exception ...
Sad (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Google+ (Score:4, Insightful)
Facebook's data mining is more insidious.
How? People keep repeating this, but nobody has any details. What, exactly, has FB done with personal data that's so evil? Anyone?
How about every time I turn off sharing of data with other websites, they issues a *new* privacy policy and all the sudden I'm sharing my data with other websites again?
Facebook is a privacy nightmare.
Re:isn't G+ still invite-only beta? (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, this invite-only beta already has over 25 million users. 5% of Facebook's user base in a month by invitation only isn't too shabby.
Re:Google+ (Score:0, Insightful)
LOL.. its cute that you think a multibillion dollar company wants to pay this moron to type a comment on a website in the hopes of "smearing" another multibillion dollar company.
But icing on the cake here is that BOTH of you appear to be mentally deficient in some way if not completely retarded ...