I'm not sure which is more annoying (and hilarious) whenever Google announces anything about Google+
A. The folk who write about how it sucked, it never worked, nobody ever used it, and ding-dong the Plus is dead.
B. The folk who wail and gnash their teeth about how Plus was the greatest thing forevers, and their hearts are broken in the face of this great injustice.
The current brouhaha over Google beginning to look at the content stream in Google+ as something distinct from the Photo album it's bundled with or the Hangouts messenger is indicative. From Type A people giddily trotting out their talking points about how Plus is dead, dead, dead (no, it's not) to Type B people moaning over the product being rebranded "Streams" (no, it's not), it's impossible to tell what's actually going on, especially since it's all based on a quick comment from the new manager of Plus (among other things).
Get a grip, folks. This isn't Google Reader. (Yet, at least.)
Originally shared by +Jaana Nyström:
There.
In your face all so-called tech journos, click-bait desperate tearers-apart and gravediggers.
#GoogleplusIsNotGoingAnywhereExceptTowardsABetterUserExperience
https://plus.google.com/+AmyBethInverness/posts/67gicvzi8VV#Googleplus Thanks +Yonatan Zunger .
It still has to be better than Google Buzz.
They started by bundling it with Picasso, so now they are unbundling it. As long as I can still use pictures here, whoopty doo.
But the idea of calling it "Streams" — which I hope is not true — I admit does bother me. Too many puns and Ghostbuster jokes.
+Murphy Jacobs I agree it would be a mistake to change the name, but it doesn't actually seem that's the case.
Photos were just fine as Picassa, and might even be better unbundled, because G+ shrinks large images, making small features unreadable when you zoom in.
HOA? Whatever.
Reader, I miss you.
+Dan Eastwood The lack of RSS feed (or, hell, any kind of feed) into G+ remains … annoying.