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Has anybody tried it, and do you have any invites?

I signed up to try and get one, but nothing so far. It sounds intriguing at least. At least far more so than Buzz.

If anyone has any invites they'd be willing to share...please send one my way! Thanks in advance!

rmcmillin [at] gmail [dot] com

No invite. I don't know anyone on it or has received an invite.

Impression from their own marketing material - Seems to me like it muddies the waters by identifying you by your "Google Account" which you may or may not already have or care about. Or maybe you have several. Rather than just approaching it as an independent site asking for whatever e-mail you care to provide and granting you a brand new account. Could be wrong. Also doubt the whole "circles" thing. People are narcissists, they want to talk to the whole group and be able to excuse it as just being part of the program. Let them select certain groups and it suddenly becomes e-mail distribution lists.

I loathe facebook for the very reason that I now avoid cameras. Every time my picture is taken, I know the whole world will see me and what I was doing then.

I like the idea of the circles. You can create a circle of "the float trip we just went on" or "chiefs game" or just "close friends", that doesnt include your parents, for instance, or your pastor or something.

Just sounds a little more personal. It's on the right track.

You dont have to let the whole world see your pics or what you are doing on FB, but they dont exactly make it easy for users to control their security settings.

But still every single one of ones "friends".

No. You can create groups of your "friends" in the same way circles works and disallow viewing of certain aspects of your information (photos, wall posts, tags, etc) for certain groups. It's not very intuitive in the way it works, but it does work. Once you create groups, then when you add a friend it gives you the option to add that fried to a group.

A friend of mine posted the following on his facebook:

okay so I never got an invite for Google+ but I just went to google.com/+ and was able to join. hooray.

From a privacy stand point with stuff like DMAC is talking about I don't think there is anything Google is doing that will make that less of a factor. But FB has decent tools to control stuff like that. Only publishing to certain groups of people avoiding being tagged...etc.

Doubt it.

I got an invite but am still getting an over capacity message.

It is weird the app works on my android phone but I can't get into the platform online.

Doubt what?

Well shit. Then NOBODY uses it. I like the way my google pics work. I take my pics and they are my pics on my site. If I want to share a pic or an album I just send the link to who I want.

Doubt he was just able to join without going throught the invite process.

Oh. Well, he's not exactly known for lying, so I guess he got lucky.

That he just went to the site and joined instantly. That person probably just requested an invitation.

Maybe he has just never been caught.

I strongly disagree. I censor myself pretty heavily on facebook because there are things I'd be more than willing to say to my friends, but not to my parents.

Kind of. The problem with FB is that it's mostly an "all or nothing" security system. It's easy to make it so that certain people can't see ANY of your pics, but it's much harder to control whether people can see individual types of pics.

I get that, and I do the same. But even the things you are willing to say to your friends - isn't that a pretty broad range? If it's a really tight circle then I almost don't need social media. A quick e-mail with a few friends will do.

I'll give it a chance. I just think that trying to decide how to group and classify people will end up being another layer of complication. Could feel different after using, though. I'm rooting for it to be good.

You fail at Facebook ROFL

Oh, and **** Google. Trying to become even more invasive than Microsoft. No ty.

I am in...
But I dont have any friends :( :sulk:

They've been that way for a long time now. If Google wanted to take over the US, they pretty much could eventually.... Demographic information on levels the government can't likely compete...

well...if someone has an extra invite around it would be muy apreciado.

If you want one, PM me your gmail address. That's how the invites work. I've played with it for 2 days now, and it's interesting... the circles are a great idea.

This is from a google slideshare last year... if you saw this, you knew this was coming.

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Just fired off a PM to ya.

If anyone wants to send me an invite, that's be great! austinchief@gmail.com

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It looks like both of you were invited... the invite system is a bit wonky. Sometimes it sends out emails, sometimes it doesn't. you are in the CP Circle, though.

didnt' get the email. Hopefully I just automatically update later. odd

Hey look, Zuckerberg Is On Google+!


http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-...le-plus-2011-7

You're damn straight I do.

And he doesn't look very happy

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That's just it... FB was one of the first social networking sites to get hammered with privacy issues, and they didn't have the second-mover advantage that Google has with Google+. FB did notify users when the advanced security features came out, but a lot of people probably ignored the messages, found it confusing, didn't know how it benefited them, etc; and I don't know if new users get a tutorial on it when they sign up.

All Google had to do was find a way to market it to the masses in a way that makes sense & fix FB's flaws... of course, FB will turn around and copy it, just like Google+ copied FB's UI and a lot of the security stuff.

The inviting process is kind of wonky... I added you guys to the system... hopefully, that works.

I think I know why the invites are being delivered slowly now...

Already invited? We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon.

I would still think that one has to receive a invite via email first.

I think its open for every one now

Nope, i tried, said limited!

still nothing for me. Guess that invite you sent didn't work as I never even received it. Odd that it still shows me in your circle.

Same here. Never received anything.

Really, until it is open for general use, I'm in no hurry to get my account as there will be very fer people to talk with. Which sort of defeats the purpose.

I've had groups setup for FB for a long time, they keep finding ways to make it more worthless and difficult, but oh well.

Finally got a working invite. But yeah, there's pretty much nobody on it yet.

On it. Digging it so far.

If anyone has a spare invite, let me know - I'd be interested in checking it out...

You guys want to start a CP circle?

Circles are private by nature. Everyone has them and you know when someone has you on one but they don't know which one.

I thought they could be used as a collaboration tool? Kind of useless if the communication is one-way.

G+ really isn't good for collaboration at all.

It is really useful as a social network that lets you manage who your bits of information go out too much better then Facebook.

I'd take an invite if anyone has one....

mrplow70@gmail.com

Thanks Zach....keeps telling me they have temporarily exceeded their capacity and to check back later.

Still no invite for me :( austinchief@gmail.com

Sad panda is sad.

You're in my circle now, I don't know how the algorithm works. It may get you invited sooner, maybe not. :shrug:

jsut sent an invite too. a friend just recieved one and activated his account so i think its open now.

Same here kbarge@gmail.com o:-)

sent. (i think)

Yes, I got an invite. Now just need Google to open the gates a bit.....

This. People fear what they don't understand.

Like fat chicks.

Still haven't received the invite from last week. what the hell?

It may be new, but I recently noticed that I can set different security filters for each album.

Yeah. I really don't understand why they continue to be fat. Excellent example.

Couple of tips I read..

+1 something on Google

And

If you have any outstanding invites like Google music use it first

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Sweet, I'm in!

Can anyone send me an invite, please? KCFalcon59@gmail.com

Thanks!!!!

I sent ya one, I think it helps if all of us that are on send one to you... it seems to bump you higher on the list.

Thank you sir!!!!

davidmu@gmail.com if anyone is feeling particularly generous.

I think I was just able to send it... David.

awesome thanks man.

Done. Building a healthy CP circle.

rmottern@gmail.com

let's go

Just was playing around with it.

My reaction: "Meh."

But I'm not a huge social media guy. Really don't use it for anything (no chat, no pic uploading, no events, etc).

So what does an invite e-mail look like? I got something from someone that appears to be an invite e-mail, but the "button" simply says "Learn more about Google+" and takes me to the standard page that says Keep Me Posted.

Not sure it's worth all of this trouble.

I work in the technology space, so having this much access to the these top minds in the tech world, is an amazing opportunity.

I've given up on trying to keep my online, business, family and personal lifes totally seperate. It's just not possible without putting a lot of thought into that effort. And for what end game? I'm not ashamed of my life or doing anything that I want to keep a part of my life from finding out. For crissakes the ****ing FBI went and talked in person to 3 members of this board about me.

I had my identity stolen two months ago. Had a service to alert to me and nothing happened and they caught the guys two days later.

Privacy on the internet is an illusion. Anyone can find out anything about anyone if they want to spend a couple of hours and if needed about $75.00. All you can hope for is to make it more difficult. But then again my parents arn't on Facebook.;)