Monday, 4 July 2011

Google+

Apart from feeling quite privileged to have it (yes, I'm a complete nerd), I really don't know what I think about Google+. Now, this isn't because there are a very limited number of people on it, and activity is definitely slack, it's because I think it lacks some of the functionality that Facebook offers.


Firstly, you cannot hide 'all posts from this user', the only options it gives are 'Report abuse', 'Mute this post' and 'Block this person'. Maybe this is a feature that'll be added later, who knows. See image below:






You also cannot see what your profile looks like to different people in the way Facebook does (this point is corrected and discussed in my next blogpost).


One nice thing about it is that it seems to be very open in the way Twitter is so there's no need for friend requests, you can just add people to your circles as you wish and they can reciprocate the gesture if they like.



2 comments:

shane said...

"You also cannot see what your profile looks like to different people in the way Facebook does."

This is is possible in the privacy centre - click your name in the sandbar, then privacy.

masquerlady said...

Hi Shane, thanks for your comment - I made the correction in my next blogpost :)