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Julie Webgirl

Julie Webgirl
@juliewebgirl@mstdn.social

· Föderation EN Sa 24.05.2025 02:27:03

@paul
I remember when Google+ required users to use their real names and required proof of such, but got so much pushback from people who had legitimate reasons for using other non-legal identifying names, that they removed that requirement.
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Paul Chambers🚧

Paul Chambers🚧
@paul@oldfriends.live

Föderation EN Sa 24.05.2025 02:34:57

@juliewebgirl off-topic,, Paul sad now from old memory. I miss the connections I made on Google+, esp during the first 6 or 9 months. A few I connected with on Twitter and now, 4 or 5, on the Fediverse.

I loved it at first until they started merging the products, and breaking them away, and changing the UI with more Material Design elements.

They kept changing it and making it worse. It could have been a good thing.

Better off anyway, since they decided "Do no evil" wasn't in their investors best interests. Wished they would make G+ opensource.

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Julie Webgirl

Julie Webgirl
@juliewebgirl@mstdn.social

Föderation EN Sa 24.05.2025 02:43:05

@paul
I'm sorry. You bring up more memories of it now though and I think it was Google Circles wasn't it? Before Google+? I felt I was the only one who thought Circles had great potential except the real name thing but people fought out because it wasn't like FB. Kinda like how Twitter users come here and complain it isn't Twitter. New platforms are hard and moving friendships across to other platforms is weird because it changes the energy dynamic. *SIGH*
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Paul Chambers🚧

Paul Chambers🚧
@paul@oldfriends.live

Föderation EN Sa 24.05.2025 02:49:35

@juliewebgirl Memories are good, even when they are "awe."

I think Google Circles was introduced in G+. Before G+ there was Google Buzz, which was built primarily in GMAIL.

Remember Google Buzz?

Buzz replaced Google Wave which Apache took over as Apache Wave.

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Julie Webgirl

Julie Webgirl
@juliewebgirl@mstdn.social

Föderation EN Sa 24.05.2025 02:57:33

@paul
Oh yeah. Such a weird concept writing an email and that person coincidentally messages you in the same app. Lol At least each of those were different things. I love when they have a business tool with a consistent naming structure like GSuite and randomly change the name to something unmemorable like Google Workspace.
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Paul Chambers🚧

Paul Chambers🚧
@paul@oldfriends.live

Föderation EN Sa 24.05.2025 02:59:46

@juliewebgirl True True. Google Chat became Google Hangouts and now it's Google Voice @mastodonmigration @batist3

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Julie Webgirl

Julie Webgirl
@juliewebgirl@mstdn.social

Föderation EN Sa 24.05.2025 03:02:46

@paul
And Meet too!
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