Google+ sucks

i havn't had any problems w/ it except for the hangout function took some toying w/ to get working...dont have to mobile app...i just don't know that many ppl that actually use g+ yet and it's still in semi early phases so i'd expect a lot of glitchy things for a bit

i haven't used google+ , but i'm using the new yahoo mail and it sucks. i much prefer the older version, but they don't give you the option to go back

i gave your 5 stars for your rant

I think the real problem has to do with my perception of what Google+ is really supposed to be. Even google themselves havent clearly defined the purpose. Most everyone assumed it was squarely targeted at facebook, and largely it looks like it is. I hate facebook. I think the UI is crap, and their business model even more crap. I only created a facebook account after years of ignoring it when it was suggested it might be useful for professional purposes, sort of having a presence on the internet so to speak. You know, networking and all that stuff. But it still just seems like a hipsters paradise, everyone piling on as many junk friends and random people as possible in some sort of popularity contest.

Anyway, I was hoping this little fad would die out, and that G+ would introduce people to seriously having their own little personal social networks of people they actually talk to. Instead g+ is recommending you spam yourself with so many fuckwits and circles for no other reason than to give yourself a reason to have an account. Now it looks more like it's geared to be some sort of twitter on steroids. But people like twitter for its simplicity. If you honestly give a shit about the day to day affairs of some stranger on the internet, then all you really want to see is some quick blurb about it. G+ isnt exactly convenient for this. If you want to have social networks with lots of picture sharing, well facebook already has that market, and google isnt really doing much to entice people to come over.

As for these bugs, im not sure if it's just google trying to dodge patent suits, or just some miserable failure to implement common sense features. One thing I really hate is Google's abstinence towards "deleting" things. They much prefer the term "remove". So for instance, after deleting a bunch of my pictures, it turns out they're still all stored in some massive archive of random shit referred to as nothing more than "pictures from posts". Duplicates, random blurry pics, everything is still in there. Whats worse, these pictures arent technically hosted by google+, they are hosted by their sister tech called Picasa Web or something. This is frustrating because picasa has an entirely different scheme for managing your photos. The phone app itself is straight up bugged. I have to reboot in order to get it to behave properly on my phone, so I'm basically done using that for now as it's understandable there are issues.

But the g+ website itself still seems severely flawed imo. Yeah yeah yeah it's a "beta". Bullshit, this is basically how the platform is going to look. This beta allows you to invite anyone who then can also invite anyone. It spread too quickly and invites were too easy to get to actually consider this some closed beta. I mean everyone basically assumes it was a cheap attempt to build some phony exclusivity anyway so I'm satisfied that I've given g+ a fair shot, and that it fails. Not miserably, I mean it would have been an amazing product if there werent already several other competitors there first, doing the same thing, BETTER.

I'll check out google+ next year once it has evolved....

like you said, it's in beta man...

you'd be amazed if you compared the current facebook, to even the facebook 2 years old. not even the same thing. not that that's saying much, i think fb is over-hyped anyway