After Google+ failed as a social network, despite Google using all their Google-muscle to shove it down everyone's throats, Vic Gundotra claims it's not a social network.
This is more about not admitting complete and utter defeat than anything else.
If Google+ is not a social network, why do I keep getting a million emails about people wanting to share stuff with me, hooking up with people, getting requested to add people "I may know" and a red notification-icon with "my notifications" in the top left screen of everything Google, despite me having opted out, requested my profile be deleted and disabled Google+ for my gapps domain?
Why does Google+ act as the desperate kid who is constantly trying to talk to you and be social all the time, if its not a social network?
If it was merely a profile-service, why would it constantly need to pester me, even after I've told it to go away a million times?
Google+ is easily the worst product Google has ever launched and has seriously damaged my impression of the company as a company just launching good services you can opt in to use, not the Microsoft which attempts to shove everything down your throat. Google Wave was a massive flop, but it was a flop you didn't have to use. And it didn't affect you. Google+ is different.
Make no mistake about it: Google+ is very, very bad. Bad execution. Bad product. And bad for Google's image as a whole.
> After Google+ failed as a social network, despite Google using all their Google-muscle to shove it down everyone's throats, Vic Gundotra claims it's not a social network.
Please give me a date that it failed as a social network, and a listing of "all the Google-muscle" shoving it down everyone's throats prior to that date. If you are correct, surely you can prove it?
> If it was merely a profile-service
I didn't say it was merely a profile-service. Neither did Gundotra. It's an integration package. You keep saying it's a product when it's not a product.
> Google Wave was a massive flop, but it was a flop you didn't have to use. And it didn't affect you.
Your objection to Google+ seems to be that it's successful, rather than it's a failure. The problem is that it's not quarantined away from your notice: that they managed to justify moving to phase two where they started actually using it.
After Google+ failed as a social network, despite Google using all their Google-muscle to shove it down everyone's throats, Vic Gundotra claims it's not a social network.
This is more about not admitting complete and utter defeat than anything else.
If Google+ is not a social network, why do I keep getting a million emails about people wanting to share stuff with me, hooking up with people, getting requested to add people "I may know" and a red notification-icon with "my notifications" in the top left screen of everything Google, despite me having opted out, requested my profile be deleted and disabled Google+ for my gapps domain?
Why does Google+ act as the desperate kid who is constantly trying to talk to you and be social all the time, if its not a social network?
If it was merely a profile-service, why would it constantly need to pester me, even after I've told it to go away a million times?
Google+ is easily the worst product Google has ever launched and has seriously damaged my impression of the company as a company just launching good services you can opt in to use, not the Microsoft which attempts to shove everything down your throat. Google Wave was a massive flop, but it was a flop you didn't have to use. And it didn't affect you. Google+ is different.
Make no mistake about it: Google+ is very, very bad. Bad execution. Bad product. And bad for Google's image as a whole.