Reply #1 - 2011 July 08, 8:34 am
wccrawford Member
From: FL US Registered: 2008-03-28 Posts: 1551

Anyone else on Google+ yet?  I can see I'm going to be sharing some JP and language stuff that I won't be bothering to post here, so I was wondering if anyone else was doing the same.

http://gplus.to/wccrawford for anyone who wants to follow my public stuff.  There'll be other stuff mixed in, like programming and anime and stuff, I'm sure.

Reply #2 - 2011 July 08, 9:06 am
Asriel Member
From: 東京 Registered: 2008-02-26 Posts: 1343

I'd follow you, if I had an invitation to work with wink

Reply #3 - 2011 July 08, 10:12 am
astendra Member
From: Sweden Registered: 2009-07-27 Posts: 350

Ditto. tongue

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Reply #4 - 2011 July 08, 12:40 pm
Copycatken Member
From: Canada Registered: 2006-05-28 Posts: 33

I wonder if this thread will turn out like the Google Wave thread last year where forums members started handing out invites to others so that they could experience the "wave." smile

Reply #5 - 2011 July 08, 1:21 pm
marcmiddag Member
From: stockholm Registered: 2010-08-31 Posts: 32

ahm, sorry not to be opportunistic but anybody has an invite left?
Google+ looks so much more ++ than facebook -
I cant wait. Yeah I had an early invite for Google wave but somehow I was ? a bit underwhelmed by it...

Reply #6 - 2011 July 08, 1:25 pm
wccrawford Member
From: FL US Registered: 2008-03-28 Posts: 1551

At one point, anyone with a GMail account could get in.  I dunno if that's still the case. 

Try this link https://plus.google.com/u/0/11502004754 … 7k4hM7AiKp and see if signing in will let you join.

If not, message me with your email and I'll see about sending invites, first-come first-serve.  I have a link to send them, but don't know how many there are.

Edit:  Changed out the link for a public one.

Last edited by wccrawford (2011 July 08, 1:28 pm)

Reply #7 - 2011 July 08, 1:35 pm
Copycatken Member
From: Canada Registered: 2006-05-28 Posts: 33

Your pasted link talks about trained cats? I don't think that's the correct one tongue

Reply #8 - 2011 July 08, 1:37 pm
wccrawford Member
From: FL US Registered: 2008-03-28 Posts: 1551

lol Yes, that's the correct one.  It's posted on my G+ Profile. 

But if signing in there didn't work, then I'll have to send invites the old-fashioned way...  Soo... Message me on here with your email and I'll send it off.

Reply #9 - 2011 July 08, 2:04 pm
Copycatken Member
From: Canada Registered: 2006-05-28 Posts: 33

Thanks wccrawford! Your e-mail invite worked smile I'm ready to help share the love, so I'll also be giving out a couple of invites. You can e-mail me too for an invite.

Reply #10 - 2011 July 08, 6:27 pm
martinh New member
From: nz Registered: 2008-04-23 Posts: 1

Thanks for the invite Copycatken!!,  I can send out invites if I'm emailed also.

Reply #11 - 2011 July 08, 8:22 pm
caivano Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2010-03-14 Posts: 705

I don't think you can get in even with an invite at the mo. Which is a shame cos it looks way better than facebook and I've been waiting for an excuse to get out of that.

Reply #12 - 2011 July 08, 8:28 pm
GreenAirth Member
From: Nagano, Japan Registered: 2009-12-20 Posts: 68

caivano wrote:

I don't think you can get in even with an invite at the mo.

I just joined thanks to an invite from martinh - thank you Martin!

I'll also send out invites if anyone needs one.

Last edited by GreenAirth (2011 July 08, 8:29 pm)

Reply #13 - 2011 July 08, 8:33 pm
vosmiura Member
From: SF Bay Area Registered: 2006-08-24 Posts: 1085

A word of warning, although I haven't tried this myself a friend mentioned to me that when they set up Google+, if you check their Google+ profile on a mobile device, it shows your address, cell phone and stuff openly even if you choose to hide it.

Reply #14 - 2011 July 09, 4:27 am
caivano Member
From: Tokyo Registered: 2010-03-14 Posts: 705

GreenAirth wrote:

I'll also send out invites if anyone needs one.

Thanks^^

Reply #15 - 2011 July 09, 5:48 am
liosama Member
From: sydney Registered: 2008-03-02 Posts: 896

You look like a redditor tongue
(the stuff you share)

Reply #16 - 2011 July 09, 6:15 am
GreenAirth Member
From: Nagano, Japan Registered: 2009-12-20 Posts: 68

It looks like I've lost the ability to send out invites. Is everyone else the same? Google seem to be really throttling this at the moment.

I've never been able to get along with Facebook but I'm liking this much better at the moment, though to be honest there isn't really that much to it. I think I need more friends (泣) before I'll be able to judge how well it works.

Reply #17 - 2011 July 09, 6:16 am
wccrawford Member
From: FL US Registered: 2008-03-28 Posts: 1551

Yup, no invites right now.  They must have hit a limit again.

Reply #18 - 2011 July 09, 9:22 am
marcmiddag Member
From: stockholm Registered: 2010-08-31 Posts: 32

So far I really like it. The possibility to make circles of friends is immense in my opinion.
That is a really big thing and it is implemented so easily so you can really have a group of friends where you share important things or have a good chat instead of the Facebook model where everything is open for everybody in your friend group (only 1 group that s it)
And then not to mention the notion of privacy. It seems to me that the notion of privacy has been completely ignorated by Facebook. They collect the data and sell it to third parties. Not only that is fishy but they force people to open more and share more so they can get market trend and so on.
Google might do this as well in the end but it looks less blatant in your face.
And where every update of Facebook reset the privacy settings leaving the user naked on the web, here in Google + it seems from the beginning that they take this aspect at heart
and it is very clear how to select the privacy levels.
There is ways to go before the release but the first impression is very good.
I dont wanna have 2000 unknown people that like what I say. I just wanna have meaningful interaction with a bunch of them and share the good things of the web..

Last edited by marcmiddag (2011 July 09, 9:23 am)

Reply #19 - 2011 July 09, 9:58 am
Blahah Member
From: Cambridge, UK Registered: 2008-07-15 Posts: 715 Website

What are people's profiles? mine is gplus.to/blahah

Reply #20 - 2011 July 09, 10:03 am
wccrawford Member
From: FL US Registered: 2008-03-28 Posts: 1551

http://gplus.to/wccrawford here.

Last edited by wccrawford (2011 July 09, 10:04 am)

Reply #21 - 2011 July 09, 10:10 am
marcmiddag Member
From: stockholm Registered: 2010-08-31 Posts: 32

mine is https://profiles.google.com/u/0/101056989710269459810
hm why is my profile URL so long?

Reply #22 - 2011 July 09, 10:14 am
Blahah Member
From: Cambridge, UK Registered: 2008-07-15 Posts: 715 Website

go to http://www.gplus.to/ to get a shortened profile url smile

I like G+ a lot, I'm totally ready to ditch facebook and it looks like G+ has worked out how to balance real-life and online social groups (circles). Would be good to have a large J-learning circle on there.

Reply #23 - 2011 July 09, 10:32 am
marcmiddag Member
From: stockholm Registered: 2010-08-31 Posts: 32

Yay thanks! Link doesnt work right now but will try later!
Yeah a Koohii circle will be nice!

Reply #24 - 2011 July 09, 10:52 am
GreenAirth Member
From: Nagano, Japan Registered: 2009-12-20 Posts: 68

I'm here -> https://profiles.google.com/u/0/111483974326059070005

This could turn out to be a great way to share all kinds of information, experiences and impressions centered on all things Japanese. Looks promising.

Reply #25 - 2011 July 09, 11:47 am
Copycatken Member
From: Canada Registered: 2006-05-28 Posts: 33

I find it kind of strange that there's no way to post something directly on another person's profile.