Former Google Engineer Says "We F***ed Up

[glakes]

A former Google+ employee who spent three years helping create Google+ has written a brutal blog post declaring the tech giant's social network a failure.

In a lengthy, at times profane breakdown on blogging platform Medium, Chris Messina, the man credited as inventor of the hashtag, writes that Google missed a chance to make the service a one-stop home for its users' online identities and, instead, created a less-popular Facebook copycat.

"I f---ed up," Messina wrote. "So has Google."

[cnn.com...]

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[tangor]

I'll consider the source (cnn) first, then the topic. This news is no news (IMO). Sounds more like an ex-employee rant than anything else.

[Leosghost]

"Thus, for me, when I searched for my mom's phone number on Google, I actually find it -- because it would be on her profile and she would have shared* it with me. Suddenly a query like 'mom phone number' would work."

Why would any one need to search Google ( or Google+ ) for their mom's Phone number ? If she had already "shared it with them" ..If you wanted to find your mom's phone number ( which she had already given you ) , you'd look in the "contacts" on your phone, or in your "dead tree" address book..

You certainly don't need to use Google to ask for it..

When all you have ( or want people to use ) is a hammer, everything looks like a nail..

Oh how I hate the abuse of the word "sharing","thanks for sharing" etc

[elguiri]

^{Oh how I hate the abuse of the word "sharing","thanks for sharing" etc}

LOL. I have a similar loathing of "engaging", as in "thanks for engaging" etc. I guess "thanks for talking to me" sounds a little sad.

[samwest]

G+ is on it's way out....

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[devGirl]

It wasn't that G+ was a FB copycat, it's that it was trying to be so unique that no one could figure it out. Same problem with Google Wave, by the way. I've been a programmer for over 10 years and I was like o_O ?

I couldn't understand what was public, what was private, who was seeing or following me.

I just recently tried to "claim" a business page for one of my dev clients--G+ sent a verification code in the mail and then rejected that code. When I tried to enter it a second time, it created a second business page for the client (still without accepting the code). After about 30 minutes of fighting with it, I was just like F*** THIS. I hope it's dead.

[J_RaD]

^ call goog customer service or email them about this.


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