Originally shared by Cliff WadeWhat's Happened To Google+?This seems to be a really big question right now and while we have some answers, and maybe a few more than just some, we still have a lot of them that are not answered or that just have us wondering.
The Beginning Of G+When Google+ was first introduced back in June 2011 and for a good 2, 3 maybe 4 years after that G+ really flourished and it flourished quite well. It grew each and every day, every month and each year according to stats we were seeing and reading about online. Even Googlers themselves, such as
+Natalie Villalobos and others were telling us how G+ was growing, what good things were happening and other great news on a pretty regular basis.
Google+ was often updated and new features were added. Bugs were squashed and interaction was superb. And interaction being "superb" is truly an understatement as this place was swarming with people who were posting all day, every day. People such as
+Derek Ross(still active, just not as active),
+Amanda Blain,
+Trey Ratcliff(he still posts here quite a bit) used to post all the time, all day long to where you would see multiple posts in an hour at times from them and that was a good thing.
Fast forward to 2015, maybe early 2016 and things started changing here big time. Bots and spam were becoming much more prevalent and spam comments on posts were becoming more frequent each and every day it seemed.
Accounts with names that you could obviously tell weren't real were popping up everywhere and your follower counts either skyrocketed because of those bots/spam accounts, or they became stale and growth slowed way down or even stopped happening completely.
Late 2016For some of us like myself who have been here since day one started to get a bit of realization, though we were strongly in denial that maybe those articles on all those sites about "Google+ Is Dead" were becoming more and more true each and every day.
Again fast forward a few months later into 2016 and of course take into consideration that Google Photos and Google Hangouts have both been removed from within G+ itself, and you can see G+ being used less and less by the people you used to interact with daily here. Those people have given up it seems. Maybe not completely but considerably enough that you might rarely see their posts in your stream anymore and this could be the case for days on end.
Personally I feel removing Google Photos and Hangouts was what really helped kill Google+. For Photos it was both a good thing for Photos itself, but a bad thing for G+. For Hangouts, well, we'll save that for another day as Hangouts is still nothing but a huge giant mess that needs to go away.
Google+ In 2017So now here we are at G+ of today. It's had a massive redesign not long ago that is now what we are all forced to use. So many options and features are missing, communities are still quite troublesome to keep clean as a moderator or an owner and the spam is just crazy insane.
I'm talking crazy insane to the point that Google doesn't seem to care about it. It's not like they can't control it because they do a damn good job each and every day in our email that most of us have been using for much longer than we've been using Google+ itself.
Spam happens all day every day, more so than what
+Derek Ross and
+Amanda Blain used to post in a single day here, and back then that was a lot of useful information that those two alone were posting here.
During this major redesign that we recently had
+Luke Wroblewski used to post on a very regular basis and keep us updated to what was going on with both the web client and the Android/iOS apps. Today,
+Luke Wroblewski hasn't posted much of anything in weeks and I can't recall the last time he updated us about Google+ and what was going on.
With that said about Luke, I can now see why that doesn't happen as he has silently left the G+ team all together from what I've read. Again, back in the day, when Googlers changed positions or jobs and they were active here, we heard about it. They posted about it here because that was the thing to do. Googlers were
VERY active here at one point in time and it was nice to see.
Another one to up and disappear and one that you really hear nothing much from any longer is
+Natalie Villalobos whom I mentioned earlier. Back in the day if you had a problem and you mentioned here, it was pressing the bell at a hotel desk and she was there, assisting however she could or finding the right person who could assist you.
Another famous Googler to just up and disappear from here,
+Bradley Horowitz. He hasn't posted anything in over 6 months yet he's supposed to be in charge of this place in some form or fashion, unless that has changed and we never heard about it either.
Then there are other folks such as
+Carter Gibson +Leo Deegan +Yonatan Zunger who do post here quite often and that is actually quite satisfying to see. It would just be nice if there was more Googlers posting and we as users knew more of what was going on with this place and what's in store for the future, assuming there is a future left in/for Google+.
Now, let me make one thing clear. I've followed a lot of Google employees here on G+ over the beginning years, because as stated they were very active. I did it because they provided a wealth of information to all of us that was very much worth sharing for others who might have missed it. I didn't follow them just to try and be "cool" or because they were employees of the social network I enjoyed. I did it for a good reason and unfortunately that reason really doesn't exist much anymore except for the couple of folks I mentioned above.
What Happens Next?So the question today is, what does Google have planned or in store for Google+ as a social media network that we as users grew to love literally overnight and at one point for a long period of time couldn't be productive at work due to having our tab open in our browser for G+.
Where does Google+ go from here? Is it going to die a slow death and just become a spam haven with nothing but fake accounts to the point where it's not worth being here any longer?
Will these folks like
+Leo Deegan,
+Yonatan Zunger +Carter Gibson or maybe others that I'm not familiar with or know much about do something to and with G+ to win us all back again and keep the blood flowing through the veins of what was in my opinion as well as millions of others, the best social media network on the entire internet?
It's sad that posts like this have to be typed up and the reason for mine was because I saw a post by
+Artem Russakovskii this morning, you can read that post here:
https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/8mPgpdYn7uT and it really made me sit and think about my daily use of G+ and how it has changed over the past year or so.
+Artem Russakovskii happens to be someone I, and many others, really look up to as most of us know him for being the owner/founder of
+Android Police and just an all around great guy. He's vocal about his opinions and he can be quite blunt at times and to me, that's important and I respect it.
So when I saw his post this morning it really hit home because every word he spoke is 100% true in so many ways that it's actually very sad.
I hope we don't lose people like
+Artem Russakovskii but I don't feel like there's anything here that's going to stop us from doing so and that's very possibly because I'm in the same boat as he is and trying to decide how often I continue to use Google+.
One thing that certainly keeps me here is the fact that I work for Nova Launcher which is one of the best 3rd party launcher apps for Android, and we have 2 very large communities here that are very active. Because I handle all email support and social media related stuff, I am here for that by all means and am more than happy to be here for that as Nova has some awesome and amazing users and our communities are truly one of a kind.
Beyond that, what's here on Google+ for me after nearly 6 years(June 29th, 2011) of service and dedication? What can Google do to save this place though we all have ideas and suggestions that we can answer that question with. The real question is,
WILL Google do anything to save this place, this place that so many of us have called "home" for so many years, this place where we've met and become really good friends with a lot of people along the way?
At this point, the ball is totally in Google's court and it's up to them if they just stand there and dribble, or do some assisting, passing and shooting to score a few points and head for the championship game.
I'm really curious to see where this post goes and if it simply falls on deaf ears, or will those folks like
+Yonatan Zunger +Carter Gibson and
+Leo Deegan step up and offer some information or insight of any kind at all?
I welcome anyone and everyone to comment on this post and to give your honest feedback and input and your thoughts on the future of Google+, the social networks of all social networks.
#GooglePlus #Google #SocialMedia #SaveItFromDying #DontLetitDieWhat's Happened To Google+?
This seems to be a really big question right now and while we have some answers, and maybe a few more than just some, we still have a lot of them that are not answered or that just have us wondering.
The Beginning Of G+
When Google+ was first introduced back in June 2011 and for a good 2, 3 maybe 4 years after that G+ really flourished and it flourished quite well. It grew each and every day, every month and each
I also joined G+ in June 2011 and I really loved it. In those days we were a relatively small (by internet standards) and diverse group, and we wanted G+ to succeed. These two factors (and perhaps we were also a relatively older or at least mature or experienced group) led to our interacting with people whose backgrounds and experiences were different from our own. We conversed, exchanged ideas, listened, and shared humor ... a great experience. We were also respectful of each other.
Most of the folks I "met" then were sufficiently committed that we made it through the hiccups and learning curve. We used Hangout, struggled through the "update", rolled with the punches. We suffered through the growing pains. We stayed. We stuck it out - until recently.
Over the past couple of years, I have a noticed an invasion of trolls. I would not say that there were no trolls earlier, but recently they have become ubiquitous. It seems that the 4CHAN/8CHAN contingent has arrived. Every conversation about anything less benign than your grandmother's recipe or painting your dining room is invaded. Because some users are too young or too inexperienced to recognize a troll, someone will engage them and the entire thread is hijacked. The serious folks leave the conversation.
(I confess to being tempted to post something along the lines of "The adults are talking, dear. Either go outside and play with the other children or go sit in the corner and be quiet and listen. You might learn something." However, I think it is a lost cause.)
The few times I have voiced this frustration, someone has graciously mansplained that "you can block someone...." Anyone with any degree of experience and a functioning brain cell can reason that my blocking someone from my view does not preserve the conversation on the thread, unless I originated the thread. Without better tools, it is a losing proposition.
I see two possible solutions: one instituted by Google and one by the community. G+ could decide to ban trolling - risky, as it is subject to interpretation: one person's troll is another's devil's advocate - and find a way to detect behavior patterns and actually follow up on reports - or the community as a whole could decide to shun the behavior. For a number of reasons, I do not see either as likely, and I admit that the journalist in me struggles with issues of free speech and censorship.
On the other hand, it is destroying the experience for many folks that I know. So many people who were a part of my early delightful experiences have left for other social media and seldom post here. I have stayed away for weeks at a time and explored other options, largely because of these experiences.
I hate to abandon G+ to 4Chan/8Chan and spammers, but ....
Never the less, I like to state some questions.
Is leaving G+ a solution to the problem or are we just fleeing for it?
What are the alternatives to G+?
One can hardly see Fartbook as a valid alternative, more over, I don't see any kind of social media succeed to G+.
I don't really understand why people dislike Facebook. Twitter though ...
I would rather see G+ work.
I still can't get my head around this design, specially handling communities; i guess they just wanted collections more prominent, but whatever.
Kill Google+ and make collection and communities their own thing.
Orkut was a successful property that Google closed down in favour of G+. It was always a minor player and much smaller than MySpace when they were both around and MySpace was the big deal. But it was big enough to dominate a couple of markets. It's highly likely that Mastodon might fill the same role as a minor player in the same space as Twitter. There's room for both. So saying, "I don't see that social network ever catching up." Is pretty much irrelevant. Orkut didn't ever catch up to Myspace, but it didn't matter. And in the end Orkut was bought, trashed and then closed by one of the other big players.
Perhaps I should admit that I really dislike Twitter and quit using it a couple of years ago, though I did not close my account.
You are a Mastodon user. What is your experience?
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Fixing g+ is some simple, just go back to the old version and bring back views, as well as fixing the followers bug.
With a little advertising Google could become the new thing in 2017.
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