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Tilted Cat Head
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mix, I'd like to think it was a marketing strategy, but G+ isn't ready for the masses yet. If Buzz was any indicator of how a product should not be launched, G+ is trying to learn from the mistakes of the past. There is only so much testing you can do inside the walls and the sandbox. Eventually you have to branch out and have other people assist. This is why I've been slowly asking people for help with TFP 5.0.
I can't see all the facets and components. I'm just one person working on an off the shelf app making modifications. I won't know if it's a problem accessing a page or feature because I do it one way and you may come at it from a different way.
And yes, if you are interested in TFP 5.0, it's out there and I've been trying to get it off the ground for 6 months. I'm about 2 weeks away, 5 if I keep getting sidetracked by G+
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Originally Posted by Plan9
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Fuck. I've been on it for half a decade. It's not a mystery; it's proletariat stream of consciousness with a few self-important talented assholes on top. Charlie Sheen included. It's endless wedding and baby pictures, rants about their jobs (some of which get them fired), snaps of their new car (A gold Nissan? Really?) and vacations to places so trite it's like late night TV. Maybe something hosted by Gilbert Godfried. Oh, look... they're by the Hollywood sign. See? I get the nature of "structure" (easy to use input GUI to speed along the data mining for a "free site" that does God knows what with your input) and how "it is what we make it." Most users make it what it is: a glimpse into our vain, materialistic culture that is completely out of touch with... (insert Roachboy diatribe). Facebook is a mental McDonald's, Baraka. Social junk food for the masses. You can't polish that turd.
The same shit that was on MySpace; the same shit that'll be on Google+, although Google+ seems to feature the precursor design structures (what's the reverse of a vestigial organ?) that may evolve into a more forum-like discussion with out-of-primary-circle individuals (strangers!) depending on whether or not Joe Prole is actually even interested in talk. Hell, I'm a total moron prole and I'm leery of anything that tries to introduce strangers into my life because I typed in "I love zombie movies" in my profile or whatever. Then again, how personal does it get? It's a weird balance, I'd imagine. It has to have some personal ties or it turns into drivel. Reddit is a prime example of what happens when you take away the name and face of people in a discussion setting: oral diarrhea. As has been shown since Usenet newsgroups started back in the dark ages: Anonymity leads to stupidity.
/hot garbage
Hey, that's great. Giving 500 people a paint brush gets you 2 masterpieces and 498 parakeet cage liners.
Did you just say Mormons?
Because I'm a moron. Did you somehow miss the 1,238,483,765 times I've said it since that June I joined? I wasn't kidding.
That's way too existential for 1300. Hit me up in a few hours.
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"Google+ feels like the social network for adults."
I have had some discussions over there that made me wax nostalgic for TFP circa 2004. Discussions that actually didn't have a moderator or a bunch of morons spouting off to each other.
Now it doesn't mean that trolls and morons don't exist, but by far they are right now the lesser of the bunch.
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