If you're reading this on Blogger, or G+, and you want to continue reading future blogs, please book mark it, or somehow take note of where it is, because its only a few more days til G+ will shut down and you'll not be notified of it as far as I can tell.
There was once a time on this blog that I'd see a reader count of 500+
I noticed first, that the share with community button stopped working, it dropped to 150,
So I had to specifically go find the groups and post them there.. but then groups actively blocked blog posts.. and I was very confused, because as far as I was concerned, the whole point of the communities was to share like topic blogs. The blogging community thrived on topics being raised by those who wished to speak of it, and readers did the rounds of several blogs to get a balanced view.
Three months ago, I posted something interesting.. and hit 30 views!
My Last blog got 2.. Seems that even though G+ is still working, they're already shutting down small part of it.. what next? blogger too?
G+ has its tendrils in many things, the little +1 button for sites, was awesome, if underused.
Imagine, if everyone actually used the google search +1, visit the site and it is what you wanted? +1 so the community can see, this is a legit site, because the 3,000 people who visited said so..
the site that was click bait? 0 +1s..
Blogs got +1s for decent content, so googling blogs showed several sites with good scores.. worthy of a read..
Communities rose up on several topics, you'd join a community and +1 the good ones.
Humans are socialable creatures, without it, our minds retreat, put up defensive barriers to ward off attacks until we break those self destructive walls or die lonely. Google+ was one way to help find like minded people and communicate..
Now?? Don't know.
Facebook has, for the longest time, been shallow, full of haters, and too open to scrutiny.. all your friends, even ones you barely know, can see that you've made a cake or had a birthday or turned 40 or gotten interested in freaky looking board games, and they comment "arn't you skilled" or "happy birthday you ole fart" or "WTF is that? are you into satanic worship now?"
Its too open.
MeWe has so many barriers of entry, you can't see posts unless they are your friend, but you don't know their posts exist unless someone comments on them. There is no personal wall to put up things, you need to create groups and invite people into those groups, and then add all the people in the group as a friends so they can all see your posts..
It needs work. but what else is there?
The Demise of G+ and what it means to many websites.
There was once a time on this blog that I'd see a reader count of 500+
I noticed first, that the share with community button stopped working, it dropped to 150,
So I had to specifically go find the groups and post them there.. but then groups actively blocked blog posts.. and I was very confused, because as far as I was concerned, the whole point of the communities was to share like topic blogs. The blogging community thrived on topics being raised by those who wished to speak of it, and readers did the rounds of several blogs to get a balanced view.
Three months ago, I posted something interesting.. and hit 30 views!
My Last blog got 2.. Seems that even though G+ is still working, they're already shutting down small part of it.. what next? blogger too?
G+ has its tendrils in many things, the little +1 button for sites, was awesome, if underused.
Imagine, if everyone actually used the google search +1, visit the site and it is what you wanted? +1 so the community can see, this is a legit site, because the 3,000 people who visited said so..
the site that was click bait? 0 +1s..
Blogs got +1s for decent content, so googling blogs showed several sites with good scores.. worthy of a read..
Communities rose up on several topics, you'd join a community and +1 the good ones.
Humans are socialable creatures, without it, our minds retreat, put up defensive barriers to ward off attacks until we break those self destructive walls or die lonely. Google+ was one way to help find like minded people and communicate..
Now?? Don't know.
Facebook has, for the longest time, been shallow, full of haters, and too open to scrutiny.. all your friends, even ones you barely know, can see that you've made a cake or had a birthday or turned 40 or gotten interested in freaky looking board games, and they comment "arn't you skilled" or "happy birthday you ole fart" or "WTF is that? are you into satanic worship now?"
Its too open.
MeWe has so many barriers of entry, you can't see posts unless they are your friend, but you don't know their posts exist unless someone comments on them. There is no personal wall to put up things, you need to create groups and invite people into those groups, and then add all the people in the group as a friends so they can all see your posts..
It needs work. but what else is there?
1 comment:
G+ will be missed. Our local g+ group Twin Cities RPG had a decent amount of activity up until the announcement felt more real with the notices.
There was some discussion as to where to go, including mewe, but I am not sure how the community, albeit a small one, would travel and remain connected to each other.
If some good alternative comes out spread the word.
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