Comments on: How Communities can help Google+ with one of its key problems

By: ggnitaly84

ggnitaly84 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:17:06 +0000

good article but like other people, I have followed many many people and have done everything to make a great profile (pics, shared interesting news, joined communities) but google plus STILL feels like a ghost town to me. I would love to interact with people like I do on my facebook fan page but my google plus business page gets no actions, no comments, no likes despite me doing the same on both accounts!

To be hhonest, no one I personally know actually uses (or likes) google plus and is a bit wary about hangouts with people they do not really know that well even if it would be better from a business perspective. Everytime I have tried to do a google hangout with more than one person, there is the craziest noise interference and none of us can hear one another unlike skype? I am hoping to be proved wrong but right now all I see on my google plus stream is a bunch of random people’s articles and news that yes can be interesting, but don’t really return the commenting or liking that I do..

By: Gene Miller

Gene Miller — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:10:25 +0000

Communities seems to be similar to what subreddits do for Reddit?

By: Cromm

Cromm — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:02:57 +0000

Sorry, pal, but google is not mimicking anybody. Communities in G+ is just a revamp of an older relationships network called Orkut, released in mid 2000′s and also owned by Google.

By: Cass

Cass — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:39:52 +0000

I don’t know what people are doing wrong if they see nothing in their G+ stream. I have 1,636 people in my circles and there are 1,784 people who have me in their circles. I can’t keep up with the number of new posts showing up in the stream. If I scroll down and view posts, within a minute or two there are 5 or 10 new posts at the top of the stream.

Almost all of my posts are ‘public’ so everyone who follows me sees them. Maybe the problem is that people come to G+ thinking it is like Facebook and only circling people that they already know in the real world. To me that entirely misses the point. I want to see and hear from people with new ideas, scientists, programmers, artists, musicians, astronauts (seriously there are people on the ISS posting to G+ all the time, as well as one of the guys that drives the Curiosity Rover on Mars.

By: Tim Acheson

Tim Acheson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:30:52 +0000

“Google+ only looks empty to those who do not follow sufficient people.”

No, I follow the maximum number of people. Google does not allow me to follow more! I’ve hit the limit –and still, tumbleweeds.

Google’s own staff barely use Google+ and prefer Facebook and Twitter — as recently reported by Mashable.

The head of Google+, a guy from India called Gundotra, wanted to use Twitter but his boss ordered him to stop!

By: Tim Acheson

Tim Acheson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:27:53 +0000

“mimicking Facebook groups”

That’s Google – imitation instead of innovation.

By: ricdesan

ricdesan — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:56:13 +0000

I hate to say it but this sounds like a too late to the party attempt to artificially address the natural and organic communities in Twitter! I write film reviews and there is no way in hell G+ is going to have such a broad base of similar users and even if they do, how unwieldy will THAT circle be in relation to bite sized twitter?

Sorry Google, not impressed

By: Vance

Vance — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:43:10 +0000

Google+ only looks empty to those who do not follow sufficient people. If you are only following a few dozen, it is no wonder that it seems slow. I think that a few hundred in Circles is required to have a dynamic stream, and in the past, Shared Circles, was the easiest way to build your own Circles. If Communities make this even easier, all the better.