20 julio 2011

Google is the Borg

Love for Google+
Google+ is very robust. It hasn't crashed and it already has 10 million visitors. Let me repeat: 10 million users. Google+ accomplished in two weeks what took Facebook about two years, and it's still invite-only. This is where the real social network is at. Even Mark Zuckerberg seems to think so. After all, he was one of the early adopters, along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page. But those are just objective facts.

My subjective opinion is that Google+ is amazing. It is one of the good things in life, like the fact that an African-American can become President of the United States. It truly feels like a social network for our age and our age group because it's done right: the interface is clean, simple, and useful. Also, the level of freedom and privacy Google+ provides is amazing. It's like real life, where you can share racist jokes with one group of friends, and support equal rights for all with another. The one thing I would like is the option of hiding chatty people. This is one of the reasons I left Facebook. I *really* don't need to know every detail of your life. It's *your* life, and please don't make me live it; I have my own to live. Google+ is in Beta, which is a little scary, but it constantly surprises me with how much everything works. It feels like a brand new machine.