Stay Away From Google+
Posted by johnny on Monday Mar 26, 2012 Under Uncategorized
Stay Away From Google +
Inhaling paint thinner provides more visual stimulation than a Google + stream. I would rather list MySpace user interface designer as my occupation on Linked In than publicly +1 anything. Never ever have I ever once circled any of my real life friends. Google Plus gives you a permanent herpes spy cookie that will cause snakes to lay eggs in your optical drive. Everything posted to Google + is a 4chan original that reddit reshare to digg and 9gag via some newfags facebook page. Google + is on par if not worse than this article. Microsoft Zune user manuals are more well read, loved, and better appreciated than either Google + or anything in this blog. Seriously, who fucking blogs anymore.
I keed, I keed.
Well not about my blog, this thing does suck. The other day in attempt to improve content caching (for my 5 yearly visitors) I pretty much broke the thing for like a week. Ooops.
Anyways, I really hope that people keep saying Google + sucks. Sorta like how we did that Santorum namedrop ass foam google shenanigans of old. Because if everyone thinks it sucks, all the assholes will stay off it. If you’re reading this, you’re probably pretty techy, my last article was about php I think? If you’re not already on Google +, you should be! Its like all the smart parts of reddit without the any of the drama or the memes or the novelty accounts, or twitters Spam whores who are just looking for a night time friend. Which why are you not there now? They seem really nice. Just checkout my followers list, I’ve got more than I need.
The other night, I [read in Chris from Parks and Rec's voice] LITERALLY got to Video Chat [Google Hangout] with some of the Google Maps development team. They made some really helpful suggestions to a project I am working on, and pretty much saved the day on for the Map display user interface. It was awesome! Im still so blown away, and they do this kinda stuff like twice a week (the Maps team). So like, one project or another is constantly having a hang out.
Better yet, my stream is filled with nothing but cool pics and intelligent discourse. I dont know if I have one spam person in my stream or following me. I certainly can’t say that about my twitter profile. Full disclosure, I don’t have a Facebook page, and havent since you were no longer required to have an .edu email address. (Hipster alert!).
Google+ is real people sharing helpful and cool stuff. Think of it like Pintrest, but for men. Is recipe sharing and resharing going to be the most popular thing in the world? No, but it certainly has its market and large group of people will use it.
Those same people are also buying the advertised products, because the ads are relevant and useful (unlike facebook credits. I dont really need to buy anything for my fake farm. I just dont. But if Im thinking about baking and you’re selling custom muffin tins, HEYO we got a bingo).
This means pintrest can get fancier and larger (which it has and will continue to a point) and the users hopefully wont be to ad overwhelmed, and spammers will have a harder time selling porn to women looking at cakes. (Do me in frosting baby).
Dont Forget to bring a Towel
If you haven’t guessed, this article has nothing new to say or techie to explain. Ive just been really happy with Google and Google+ in general. From a software dev and geek, Id just like to give a shout out and ask that any geeks who havent give Google+ a look, to try it, circle at least 100 people. As for me, I do plan to start doing alot more tech articles. I finally finished a 5 month project and have a little time, so stay tuned.
I have big plans for ajaxPlayer and HTML5 music players in general. Also hui (huement user interface) is pretty polished and will be doing a initial release soon.
