I believe it's time for facebook to be turned into a dinosaur. They change things that don't need to be fixed and make them worse, they don't fix things that should be. All their innovations end up falling flat and all we can do is bitch about it and pray that they change it back.
So who have we turned to when yahoo ate our hour-long email and we've just had enough? Gmail, of course. To look something up we google it, google docs is a thing of beauty, and being able to have a multitude of to-do lists anywhere I log in is amazing. Of course there are the many, many failed attempts. Buzz I still don't get. Google Wave happened and died before I even realized it. That is the way with most of google's failed projects: they come and go without a ripple in our collective digital consciousness. They've become pros at failing, which is actually a daring, brilliant way to do business. Without failure there would be no success. The fact that they're constantly trying new things is great.
But my humble opinion is that they've gotten too good at failing. With a social networking site to work, it needs members. Lots and lots of members. To create a social networking site and have a limited release to just try it out is like partially building an airplane to see if it will soar. It's got to be all or nothing.
Google+ is failing. It's faltering. It's losing momentum. And this, to me, is tragic because we're primed for a new social networking site. We're all savvy facebookers at this point. We know what's what. We know how to keep our grandmother from seeing our post about how much we f#@king hate our job. What we want now is the next level. The site where navigation is easy and flawless. Security is completely in our hands and straightforward. We want the controls now. Because we know what to do with them.
Now if Google can't give that to us, who the eff can?
