good 'ol mig. helping bros since 2007. the email that came through was concerning a "possible future design" for your website. thanks for giving it a shot though.
Hooray, another handy utility to piss away my privacy for the sake of aimless social connectivity. I ain't for sale.
Not really. It's just another way to turn yourself into a commodity. You give your life to some company to data mine and sell. Permanently. Insane.
Facebook More Hated Than Banks, Utilities According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, Facebook raises a lot of ire among its customers — more than Bank of America or AT&T Mobility. This bodes ill for the company — as blogger Chris Nerney points out, many of the others on the most-hated list are utilities and other companies with monopolies, which can hold customers despite bad service. At least Facebook edged out MySpace.
Customers? I don't see the parallel here. You pay for BOA or ATT and expect a service. Not to mention banking and mobile phones are more necessities. If you don't like a social networking site, well, don't use it.
Facebook is really the only online social networking provider around. You "pay" them by contributing to their site traffic and data collection (ad revenues). Much the way you "pay" network tv with your viewership.
Right, but I think people tend to be more unsatisfied when something they actually fork over money for is not pleasing them (ie banks or phone companies). If a social network isn't suiting you, why complain instead of just not using it?
I got invited, but too late for now, they stopped accepting people http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218068/Google_invites_shut_down_after_insane_demand_ Google+ invites shut down after 'insane demand' Google+ is no longer taking new users, even if they received invites to join. Late on Wednesday night, Vic Gundotra, a senior vice president of Social for Google, posted on the Google+ network that the company has been overwhelmed with interest and had to stop taking new users. "We've shut down invite mechanism for the night," Gundotra posted. "Insane demand. We need to do this carefully, and in a controlled way. Thank you all for your interest!" The shutdown means people can't invite anyone else to join Google+ right now -- and even people who already had been invited onto the network can't get in. "Already invited? We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon," was the message one would-be user who was invited got today. A Google spokeswoman said she didn't have any information on how many people have signed up to use Google+ or how many invitations have been sent out. She did say that the invitation process will be opened and closed periodically as the company works on getting the network ready for its big public release. "We launched Google+ in a field trial in order to test the product out and gather more feedback," the spokeswoman wrote in an email to Computerworld. "As part of the field trial, we may open and close Google+ to new users at any time. We're thrilled so many people are interested in trying out a new approach to online sharing." She added that the goal of the field trial is see exactly how Google+ works outside of the company's own walls. And Google also is looking for user feedback and time to fix any bugs they may find. The spokeswoman did not offer details on what bugs may have been found, and she could not say when Google+ will be released publicly. Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with CurrentAnalysis, said a limited field test may actually frustrate people who want to get on the network and try it out, but can't. "It makes [Google] seem like they're not ready for primetime," said Gottheil. "You can't really use a social network unless you have a social network.... They get one chance to get attention, but I think [Google] would have been better off with something like, "Try it with one small circle, limited to 10 or 20 or whatever members, instead of something so limited." Google took the wraps off its new Google+ project on Tuesday, after months of Internet buzz that Google was working on a social network that could take on Facebook, now the largest social net in the world. Facebook has more than 500 million users.
