[ExI] Google+

[Emlyn]

On 6 July 2011 00:58, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:01 PM, spike wrote:
>>>... On Behalf Of Emlyn
>> Subject: [ExI] Google+
>>
>>>...Who else has found themselves part of the Rapture of the Nerds, ie:
>>> with a Google+ account? Emlyn
>>
>> Emlyn, How is that the Rapture of the Nerds?
>>
>>
>
> Because it is supposed to be like Facebook without all the crap and
> demand for accounts is so astronomical that Google has had to restrict
> invites until they can cope with the demand.

Yup. That terminology came originally from Buzz (on which I've been
quite active), because some were taken up into Google+, and some were
Left Behind. They are now known as the Nonplussed.

>
> This leaves the Nerds with accounts enraptured at being one up on all
> the other nerds frothing at the mouth with impatience to try it out.
> :)
>
> (Google+ includes the killer feature of video-conferencing).
>

Google+ is smooth, damned fine social networking. It is to social
networking what Gmail was to email, imo. Takeoff looks promising.
We'll see though.

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Emlyn

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