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Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users
dkd903 noticed another amusing shot in the battle between G+ and Facebook. CNN is running a story where Facebook's director of game partnership Sean Ryan basically says Google+ has no users. The article is mostly about casual gaming on social platforms, which I am really sick of individually blocking.
There are no companies (users in Facebook speak) actively mining your content on Google+.
Facebook's data mining is more insidious.
As for circles, being able to direct messages at friends, family, the world, is enormously useful. The problem is it means you have to decide on every post who you want to share it with. However, that means you know who every post is going to.
Isn't no Farmville spam the entire selling point of Google+? Everybody I know using it is there precisely because it's NOT Facebook and doesn't have all the annoying spam (and even more annoying emo users) that make Facebook a wasteland of human stupidity.
-- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
Google+ has no users, but Facebook has no users worth talking to.
I think I'll take Google+ if I'm forced to choose one.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
It's sad watching people argue over which advertising conglomerate they want to give all their personal information to.
Facebook's data mining is more insidious.
How? People keep repeating this, but nobody has any details. What, exactly, has FB done with personal data that's so evil? Anyone?
How about every time I turn off sharing of data with other websites, they issues a *new* privacy policy and all the sudden I'm sharing my data with other websites again?
Facebook is a privacy nightmare.
Actually, this invite-only beta already has over 25 million users. 5% of Facebook's user base in a month by invitation only isn't too shabby.