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Google+ on its way down?

23 comments, 276 views, posted 1:36 pm 02/06/2012 in Google by tomcat025
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I've finally gotten to the point where I am sick and tired of Facebook. It's gotten cumbersome and obese.

I gave it some thought at great length and decided to leave Facebook in less than a weeks time. When discussing this in a thread of mine on Facebook a friend of mine made the statement that Google+ was going the way of the Dodo or the Titanic. The only reason I see for something like Google+, which I am slowly starting to love (other than that stupid trends crap on my home + page) is that people are simply unwilling to make the move because their friends, games, etc, are sitting over on FB munching chips (crisps to some) on their collective sofas.

Is Google+ truly on its way out?
Will someone dethrone the evil Facebook?

Time to go look for the internet version of the Lady in the Lake... Excalibur must be around somewhere.

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griffin (5), evolution (5), Edorph (3), aion_z (5)

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2:16 pm 02/06/2012

griffin

I've actually noticed a few new people popping up on G+, and you can get rid of that annoying trends bullshit. It's in the settings somewhere. I was thinking of going to Diaspora, but I want my own pod and I don't have a box to run it at the moment.

2:51 pm 02/06/2012

z0phi3l

People have been claiming that G+ was on it's way out 5 mins after it launched, just your typical internet hating on Google, you get the most "rumors" right after Google adds a new or better feature than FB. Heck the updated G+ app is seriously nice and tons better than anything FB has release on any OS

3:02 pm 02/06/2012

Quaektem

Facebook dethroned Myspace, it's very likely something will dethrone FB. Things change and people are becoming more and more dissatisfied with it.

3:17 pm 02/06/2012

evolution

Quote by Quaektem:

Facebook dethroned Myspace

Why did that happen? Everyone I know left Myspace for Facebook because all their friends were on Facebook, but why did those friends go over to Facebook to begin with?

3:58 pm 02/06/2012

z0phi3l

Quote by evolution:

Quote by Quaektem:

Facebook dethroned Myspace

Why did that happen? Everyone I know left Myspace for Facebook because all their friends were on Facebook, but why did those friends go over to Facebook to begin with?

MySpace was completely horrible, slow and virus ridden by the time FB dethroned it, AOL owning it didn't help

4:36 pm 02/06/2012

marksyzm

Google+ is starting to kick in at the moment. Slow and steady but everything is falling into place. I was looking at chrome os in it's recent conjunction and it is now really starting to look like it has its place with Google drive. It's the long game,methinks

6:16 pm 02/06/2012

griffin

Quote by z0phi3l:

MySpace was completely horrible, slow and virus ridden by the time FB dethroned it, AOL owning it didn't help

And filled with flashing gifs and twenty scrolled pages of glaring neon shit.

6:17 pm 02/06/2012

aion_z

I have not been on Facebook since January. I'm not really missing anything.

6:18 pm 02/06/2012

aion_z

I was considering Diaspora but I haven't felt the need to register & I have no desire to use Google +.

11:31 pm 02/06/2012

tomcat025

Quote by griffin:

I've seen no option to disable that bit of the UI. I have sent feedback about it. Perhaps it will happen eventually.

3:55 am 03/06/2012

griffin

I think it's in the dropdown menu on the feed itself. The option does exist, I got rid of it, but can't remember how. Maybe google it.

6:07 am 03/06/2012

Sypher_5

On the "whats hot" title in your stream click on the left. Bye Bye Trends.

10:34 am 03/06/2012

tomcat025

Quote by griffin:

I think it's in the dropdown menu on the feed itself. The option does exist, I got rid of it, but can't remember how. Maybe google it.

Googling it just got me posts of people complaining about it and submitting suggestions.

Quote by Sypher_5:

On the "whats hot" title in your stream click on the left. Bye Bye Trends.

Nope.

6:20 pm 03/06/2012

griffin

How to remove Google's spammy "Whats Hot" feature:
Hit up this webpage here (What's Hot settings) and adjust the slider bar to the left: https://plus.google.com/hot

11:22 pm 03/06/2012

tomcat025

Quote by griffin:

https://plus.google.com/hot

It does not do as they say. All the way to the left does nothing to the trending column. Thanks for the info though.

11:39 pm 03/06/2012

griffin

Aha, I was mixing up trending with 'what's hot'. They are two separate shit streams. Dump trending with this custom adblock filter: plus.google.com##DIV[componentid="13"]

Works for me in FF.

11:43 pm 03/06/2012

tomcat025

Quote by griffin:

Aha, I was mixing up trending with 'what's hot'. They are two separate shit streams. Dump trending with this custom adblock filter: plus.google.com##DIV[componentid="13"]

Works for me in FF.

Points for that one. Thanks griffin.

Just not sure how to point you other than the up arrow..

11:55 pm 03/06/2012

griffin

That's it. Oh, there was another thing I dumped, 'new & interesting'.

This filter worked for me in adblock. plus.google.com/_/apps-static/_/ss/sbw/ver=1zt5rm1yl1n3/am=!i9YzA1B3yX2JBf3iMTEVQu6oENFL7vM0mD8/bf=wgE/r=O/*

I suspect that yours would be different but similar. I sent feedback about crappy unwanted feeds too. Also about how feeds I want are stuck in three inches of screen, leaving the rest blank.

You can open up adblock and list 'blockable items on this page' or something like that. It's about two thirds down the list, or maybe a bit more.

11:56 pm 03/06/2012

griffin

I must say that Mark has done a much better job on that score than all the Google developers put together! The way Teoti can be styled is light years ahead of anything google or facebook have been able to do.

12:08 am 04/06/2012

tomcat025

Quote by griffin:

That's it. Oh, there was another thing I dumped, 'new & interesting'.

This filter worked for me in adblock. plus.google.com/_/apps-static/_/ss/sbw/ver=1zt5rm1yl1n3/am=!i9YzA1B3yX2JBf3iMTEVQu6oENFL7vM0mD8/bf=wgE/r=O/*

I suspect that yours would be different but similar. I sent feedback about crappy unwanted feeds too. Also about how feeds I want are stuck in three inches of screen, leaving the rest blank.

You can open up adblock and list 'blockable items on this page' or something like that. It's about two thirds down the list, or maybe a bit more.

Thanks for the heads up.

Quote by griffin:

It is indeed.

1:23 pm 10/05/2013

marksyzm

Thanks Griff - just saw this... I am doing more work to make it easier to use at some point as I'm going to make it an open source utility (one day) complete with plugins and whatnot

1:46 pm 10/05/2013

elsels

This is one really old thread and I just liked a comment, I guess I have a year delay! hate FB, but I am still on it since I admin a few pages that are somewhat needed for some communities.

7:17 pm 10/05/2013

tomcat025

Quote by elsels:

This is one really old thread and I just liked a comment, I guess I have a year delay!

hate FB, but I am still on it since I admin a few pages that are somewhat needed for some communities.

The only reason I am on it now is that it is the only way for me to talk with some family members and friends.

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