On 8/7/13 1:30 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Well, it's not _quite_ automatic posting. When you save your Blogger
article it automatically pops up the G+ share UI to prompt you to post
it. Sure that's useful, but I disabled it a while back because it also
pops it up every time you make any small change to your posting like
adding tags or correcting a spelling error.
Something to be aware of is that the users at Google+ expect you to
post an image to G+ itself rather than a link to an image somewhere
else. For some reason G+ users (all 17 of them! :-) ) expect to see
local images and will pretty much ignore any image-link posting.
Google+ reinforces that too by showing off-linked images as tiny
thumbnails while displaying local content as big pictures.
And if you share an image to one of the G+ Groups, you will be
verbally taken to task if you post a link to a blog article or Flickr
page rather than local content. They like to be able to comment and +1
stuff on G+ itself rather than deal with 3rd parties, which I kind of
get, but it's annoying.
Google+ is too much of a closed community. I liked it in the beginning
but I don't have the time to invest in so many different little gated
communities.
This is all pretty spot-on, although I disagree with the end point; It
*can* be closed community, if you want it to be. There is a definite
hierarchy, though.
G+ is the only social network I come close to understanding, and I've
been fortunate enough to work out a combination of weirdness and pretty
girls that I've been moderately successful there. I've made a number of
friends/contacts there that have been good for me and the things I find
important. We got speakers for the Camera Clinic at GFM both last year
and this from G+.
It's a myth, BTW, that G+ is a ghost town. The users are there. It's
just up to you to find them, by providing compelling, original work and
interacting with those who have interesting work as well.
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