Thank you, Google+, for nothing
I am bitter. Google+ isn’t novel, it’s just new. It doesn’t serve a specific function, as LinkedIn and Twitter (kinda) do. It simply replicates a working formula with some supposed experience improvements, and only one really cool feature (Huddles), which will probably be replicated by Facebook soon enough.
This feeling came to a head when I went to add more people to my Circles (“Groups,” and don’t try to convince me that any of the differences are meaningful) and saw nothing but pictures of people I’m already Friends with, LinkedIn to or Following, often with the same damn mug shot.
Ohh, look, I can add Alyssa Milano to one of my Circles! I wonder what I’ll get from her on Google+ that I can’t by following her on Twitter? Oh, right, nothing.
I will watch you, Google+, because I must, because you’re Google and it’s part of my job. But I don’t have to like it, or should I say, +1 it.