Google Trying to Lure Celebs to Google+

alphadogg writes "Part of the buzz this week about Google+ is that Google is reportedly working to lure celebrities such as Lady Gaga to its new social network service with verified accounts. Not sure if tech big shots beyond Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg count as celebrities, but the list of the technology industry's biggest names using Google+ is on the rise. Dell chief Michael Dell – yes, the real Michael Dell — has grabbed headlines for his early enthusiasm for Google+ and interest in using it as a newfangled customer support and interaction tool. Open source movers and shakers like Linus Torvalds, Miguel de Icaza are also posting away."

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It's not that much better than facebook

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Facebook's problem is that its interface is ill-designed. It presents information in ways that are hard to understand ("most recent" sorting I understand; the default sorting is a mystery; and Google+ doesn't even have a "most recent" button on the Stream). And certain things just don't seem to work (when a link has a number on it, it means there are that many messages or something waiting at the other end; click it, and the number goes away because it assumes you've read them; except it doesn't on about 10% of those widgets...)

Google+ seems to have inherited several of these problems. And it provides no means for pointing them out to the development team. It's like walking into a half-built building and finding many rooms have no way in or out, there are windows missing, the cold-water faucet shocks you, the kitchen appliances run on diesel, and you're encouraged to invite your family and friends to join you there.

And now they'll be offering carpeted versions of this to people who can tell 40 million of their Facebook friends that it's broken. Not wise.