Well, I might as well say it:

[agoodwinsmith]

Google+ is boring.

Yep, I know, but there it is.

They are also entirely stupid about the "real name" shit, and now they are insisting that profiles be public, which is another stupid piece of stupid.  I'm entirely not impressed with any of the random account deleting, either.

So, there is all this questionable shit, and as a platform, it is booooooooooring.  Boring.  Dull, dull, dull.

I dunno.  It wants to be FB and it wants to be LJ and it has all of the things that annoy me about both.  I am grateful to it for stirring things up so that I am now connected with people I had lost connection with at afp, but ... dull.

Comments

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

I expect it'll only be interesting when a mass of people post interesting stuff to it. Meanwhile, I have lj and dw and irc.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, maybe. Because it is graphic heavy, it is not easy to scroll to all the fresh posts, or notice new comments, so sustaining a conversation is difficult. I already have a comment-&-run forum, two of them actually (LJ & DW), and Twitter is more useful to me for a real time forum, since I can see backwards to when I last read. But it is weak for converstaions also, because I do not see everyone's comments. I'm not actually fond of lvie-time chat forums because (a) I am interested in speaking with people who are not in my time zone and are fast asleep by the time I get off work and (b) I'm not usually spritely enough to respond spontaenously.

So, I'm not actually sure what Google+ is offering that can't be achieved elsewhere.

I mean, if they want to be a professional platform, and hence the insistance on legal names and public profiles - there are already platforms that do that: LINKEDIN.

I dunno - I don't have a sense of what Google+ wants to be when it grows up.