Inquisitive Elks

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GOOGLE + I LOVE YOU!

….so far!

Well it was a time before, long ago and Myspace was the leading social network. It was a nice simple place where you kinda had a picture of your face, maybe a few more pictures, a bit about yourself, your friends and kinda that was it.

Then they started making pages that people could use for their bands, I think mostly prompted by the whole pop-culture around it. Was that a good idea? Fuck yeah! I think it almost single handedly wiped out the need for bands to have their own websites – and as soon as people realised you could piss about with the layouts and HTML, well you had a swish looking page for the world – good stuff! Myspace was great, you could find people chat, start groups that actually meant something, in fact I spent many a day and night just hanging out on Myspace. I made friends that I am still friends with today despite never meeting them.

But something happened right…one day we all opened up our Myspace and it looked different. None of the buttons were in the same place and nothing was how it used to be….in fact, it was awful! And then you had to wade through the pages and pages of mails and adverts for bands before you could see what your friends wrote to you…..then Myspace started adding more and more frills and trinkets until it took you an hour just to open up the page….it started to fizzle….

As if answering the call, Facebook popped up and it was just what we needed! A bit hard to start off with but after a while that was it – we had lift off! Fucking FACEEEEBOOOOK! It was good stuff, and the features were simple and easy to use.
Hard to say when it started but bit at a time Facebook started to add a bit here and a bit there…a bit like stacking wobbly bricks on a solid foundation. Quite early on I discovered BETTER FACEBOOK which is an application for Firefox, Chrome and Opera that allows you to sort out your Facebook so you can get rid of a lot of the things you really don’t need. Constant suggestions of people you might want to be friends with that you are avoiding…past status updates you want forgotten, pictures you really, really want to tag, events on the other side of the world, help me build my cow, quizzes for no reasons at all, more and more and more rubbish upon rubbish, adverts and then PLACES!!! People can tag you depending on where you are! Fuck that.
The final straw for me was recently when they changed the way the chat function works and how the messaging system works – last straw. Fuck you Facebook. Learn from past failures, really, it’s like trying to go in and take over Russia, learn where others failed and don’t make the same mistakes! Stop fucking about with the stuff that works….. because this is happening!

 Oh yes – GOOGLE + (or G+ or GOOGLE PLUS) has answered the call and come up with a Facebook-like social network. I’ve been on it a day now, and I’m a little bit in love already. It’s clean, simple, not a whole bunch of mucking about add-on crap, but just the stuff you need.

If you too are getting sick of Facebook – go check it out. You’ll need a Gmail (or Google) email account and an invite and after that…you’re good to go! I recommend it, it’s nice, it’s clean, it’s the new wave – fuck you Facebook!

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2 responses to “GOOGLE + I LOVE YOU!”

  1. T-dog says:
    August 5, 2011 at 1:57 pm

    Hey Elk,
    Do you think you could send me an invite for Google + ?

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  2. gregelk says:
    August 11, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Certainly my man – it’s on its way to you now!

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