googleplus

[greenkoolayd]

anyone?  im already on board.  are you's?

[theinevitable]

I'm on there. Solve this puzzle for my real name:

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01101001 01110010 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01101110 01100001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01000100 01100001 01101110 01101001 01100101 01101100 00100000 01000010 01110101 01110010 01110100 01101111 01101110

[Doc]

I'm there, same e-mail as my facebook, pretty sure I've got you both on there.

[Asherdan]

Fuckin' A! You just Bender-ed all over the place!

[greenkoolayd]

I'm on there. Solve this puzzle for my real name:

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01101001 01110010 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01101110 01100001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01000100 01100001 01101110 01101001 01100101 01101100 00100000 01000010 01110101 01110010 01110100 01101111 01101110

this is america.  speak spanish.

[wombat]

Maybe someday. It won't let me join unless I update my browser and I can't update my browser because I am in the middle of a project looking for something in a web archive that will be very hard to find my place in if I have to start over.

[pmcd9]

Maybe someday. It won't let me join unless I update my browser.

Use a different browser.

[wombat]

Or I could go use the other computer. But I use ten million other websites every day that don't complain because I am not using the most recent version of Firefox. This doesn't seem like a very good way to attract members to yet another social networking site that might go nowhere.

[Choop]

http://www.google.com/chrome/ <- a very good browser with adblock and few other extensions. can you not bookmark your current webpages?

i played a photo tag stunt on facebook that might get me the boot, will let you all know (hint: check my profile there)

[wombat]

I'm perfectly happy with my browser and it's not even that old a version. I can't bookmark the thing because it is an archive of years of news stories structured as a single page that you just have to keep reloading more bits of. A bookmark will just bring me back to the beginning and I will have to scroll through two years again. So Google being pains in the ass are going to have wait in line behind The Telegraph being a pain in the ass.

[littlefallsmets]

I wonder if they do things like that on purpose, to try and make the thing look more exclusive and early-adoptery.

"Let us make it only useful for the newest browsers and let us make there be fuck*ng invitations for a fuck*ng public website, just to make people feel like trend-setters and stuff.'

I am firmly not an early adopter, too, I guess.

The fact that most of these invitations are being offered up on facebook, the direct competition, tickles me somehow.

If it gets useful to the point where it isn't just a duplication of my facebook contacts, I'll join when it gets to that point, you know?

Why would I join before that? So that I can worry about doing the same things for mostly the same people in two different places?

[wombat]

Yeah, maybe, otherwise I don't really understand how "the social network for people who update their browsers frequently" is a good business model.

I have adopted a policy of joining these things early to get a good username. I have found that there is no downside to joining a website and never using it, but there is a large annoyance factor to having the name I want already taken.

[Asherdan]

"I wish you the best on your future endeavours."

Yes. That is my take on it it.

[Doc]

We have been let go from Ash's friendship group.

[theinevitable]

I think the kind of people who design Google Plus forget that people exist who don't update their browsers. Because, why wouldn't you? Other than a really weird situation like Wombat's.

I definitely like the interface a lot more, and like circles. Never felt bothered by Facebook the way many of my peers did, until I saw how cool and easy G+ is.