heck with Google+

i hate that all these SW companies do that now ...hp, google, facebook, etc ...following the trend that mirosoft started i guess?
my freak'n printer (hp) recognized i had refilled cartridges, and deleted the driver, forcing i upload the more invasive/newer driver from hp website ..wtf?

 

Yeah, garnet, hp's always been horrible that way.

Rob - do you see my nic 'n pic on the "add people you know" thing - I rarely go there & haven't added anyone.
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sadly, i hear edson/canon, etc are following this now too

 

http://www.bgr.com/2012/06/20/google-plus-low-engagement-beneficia/

Spin city.

 

My main issue has been finding people on Google+, why would I spend the time to go through and find the people that I'm already friends with on FB. I think Facebook was brilliant when it started because everyone was placed in groups based on their school, at least this is how it worked before it really opened up. So when I signed up I put in my school info and it automatically gave me a massive list of my classmates and I could very easily get set up with a lot of friends within 5 minutes of joining. Google+ doesn't seem to have a good way of doing that unless you have everyone in your Google contacts or email with them.

 

I was going to leave a review for a car dealership on Google though the maps tab but then it wanted me to sign in to Google+ in order to do so. I didn't want to be bothered and have to have my email/profile everything linked to a public thing so I ended up not doing it. The more "social" all these websites are becoming the less and less I like them.

 

This may sound petty, but I deleted my google+ account because it asked me to sign in every time I opened the app. No other non-banking app I know of does that.

 

FB and Google+ will not be "hip" in five years-a networking site that is mobile-based, with a better UXD experience, will come along with a new twist.

 

I'm just annoyed they're screwing with my Picasa albums.

I can't even move to the Apple Gallery anymore... all their mobileme gallery stuff was discontinued and not rebuilt for iCloud.

And I don't want my albums in Flickr or Facebook. Google's Picasa was perfect. Ugh.

 

How are they screwing with your Picasa albums? What did they change?

 

I sure hope so! I cannot stand the way FB runs their site.

 

When I go to my public albums page now, it auto-redirects to displaying the same albums on a Google+ profile.

There is a link at the top to "go back to Picasa Albums" ... but it looks temporary. There haven't been any significant updates to Picasa in several years.... all their development is in Google+.