Google+ appears to be Google's answer to Facebook. It is in invite only beta right now so somebody invite me, please.
It actually looks pretty cool. I like some of the features it has. It definitely won't overtake Facebook, but let's hope it's more successful than Google Buzz.
All I want is your bodily fluids and you never can share those with me. With Google+, now we can! SPECTACULAR!
It's in a limited field trial so they're not even taking beta requests, but you can sign up to be notified for when it opens here: https://plus.google.com/up/start/?sw=1&type=st
Ah, google betas. I can see the appeal of this one on publishers, bloggers and marketers but for the common man sadly I don't see it yet. We already have avenues for such things like skype, facebook, twitter. I hope this does not flop like google wave and google buzz, which is also google's take on joining the social wagon.
I am sorta looking forward to this, because facebook can be quite annoying "Jeffrey Song invited you to the group Da Pokemon Trainers" "Jeffrey Song invited you to the group Facebook United!" "Jeffrey Song invited you to the group Azns Rule!" "JEFFREY SONG IS A CYBER TROLLLL"
That still happens to you? It's been at least a year since the invites plagued me. It use to be, "Matt bit you as a werewolf, do you accept?" all the damn time. Google Wave use to be really useful, though. Sucks that they took it down.
You see, you've made a classic mistake there. It's not Facebook that's the problem... it's Jeffrey Song. You can block invites from individual friends via Privacy Settings > Block Lists.
No, it actually is Facebook that's the problem. Getting some value out of a service like FB's shouldn't feel like work.
It isn't work. I've never been spammed with invites. If you've got a stupid friend that's your own deal, they'd probably just spam you with e-mail chain letters if they weren't spamming you with Facebook invites. Blocking it is just a couple of clicks away, it couldn't be simpler. How you could look at his post and not come to the conslusion that this Jeffrey guy is obviously a dick is beyond me.
Building a house is work. Fixing an a/c unit when it's 110 outside is work. Weeding out spammers by clicking a button? If that's work, then you need to reevaluate the word.