The most loyal G+ users and evangelists are being driven away from the new G+
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DannySullivan/posts/ivhndhzZjGX "My sharing on Google+ is going to be much less than in the past. It's just not the place for that now. More below.... I've been with the new Google+ for about a week or two now. I keep having Collections shoved at me. I find it hard to get to my feed or even to post. When I do, engagement seems way down than in the past. I also find it a pain to have to click and wait for the comment to open, if I want to review or respond to them ... -- Danny Sullivan" - - - Danny (of "Search Engine Land" and much more) has been a longtime friend of and sometimes critic of Google. He has around 1.7M G+ followers -- putting my comparatively meager almost 400K to shame. And while I keep hoping the new G+ UI and user experience will improve in significant ways -- there are some continuing changes in process -- the new G+ remains uncomfortable to view, cumbersome to use, and seems to be focusing more on distracting eye candy and forced engagement than usability and accessibility. I keep sampling it before returning to the legacy interface, but once that legacy interface option is gone -- absent major changes in the new G+ beyond its current status -- I may well be forced to follow his example. I dread the thought of having to start using Facebook or the like -- but if Google drives me and the other long-time, dedicated users and Google+ evangelists to that, it will be a choice of their own making. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so. My opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
