{"id":49727,"date":"2015-03-02T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/schrodingers-google.html"},"modified":"2015-05-12T08:34:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T14:34:51","slug":"schrodingers-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/schrodingers-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Schrodinger&#039;s Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m not sure which is more annoying (and hilarious) whenever Google announces anything about Google+<\/p>\n<p>A. The folk who write about how it sucked, it never worked, nobody ever used it, and ding-dong the Plus is dead.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The current brouhaha over Google beginning to look at the content stream in Google+ as something distinct from the Photo album it&#39;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&#39;s not) to Type B people moaning over the product being rebranded &quot;Streams&quot; (no, it&#39;s not), it&#39;s impossible to tell what&#39;s actually going on, especially since it&#39;s all based on a quick comment from the new manager of Plus (among other things).<\/p>\n<p>Get a grip, folks. This isn&#39;t Google Reader. (Yet, at least.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Jaana Nystr&ouml;m<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>There.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In your face all so-called tech journos, click-bait desperate tearers-apart and gravediggers.<\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23GoogleplusIsNotGoingAnywhereExceptTowardsABetterUserExperience\">#GoogleplusIsNotGoingAnywhereExceptTowardsABetterUserExperience<\/a>  <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+AmyBethInverness\/posts\/67gicvzi8VV\">https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+AmyBethInverness\/posts\/67gicvzi8VV<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23Googleplus\">#Googleplus<\/a>    Thanks <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103389452828130864950\" oid=\"103389452828130864950\">Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/span> .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/107742059751171695340\/albums\/6121729146138527569\/6121729155466112674'><img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-5NKEPl9atoQ\/VPTAO4q1rqI\/AAAAAAAEYKc\/1eLYFpGmgV4\/Na%25CC%2588ytto%25CC%2588kuva%2B2015-03-02%2Bkello%2B21.53.59.png?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/3W1UjQWqczi'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/schrodingers-google.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Schrodinger&#039;s Google+&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[165,829],"class_list":["post-49727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","tag-googleplus","tag-googleplusisnotgoinganywhereexcepttowardsabetteruserexperience"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NaCC88yttoCC88kuva+2015-03-02+kello+21.53.59.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50181,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/the-ghost-town-that-would-not-die.html","url_meta":{"origin":49727,"position":0},"title":"The &quot;Ghost Town&quot; That Would Not Die","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 27-Apr-15 7:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's pleasant to read an article that makes the non-kneejerk case that Google+ is not a ghost town, that there are a lot of folk active on it, and if it's not beating Facebook ... who cares?(I will add anecdotally that I know several people who primarily, or even solely,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":138527,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/aloha-google.html","url_meta":{"origin":49727,"position":1},"title":"Aloha, Google+","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Apr-19 7:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Google turns out the light at its social site. 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