The ToS seemed to be a bit scarier than Facebook's, so while I have an invite sitting around, I don't think I'm going to use it.

Who is already in? I have an account (I absolutely love the layout and the design of it all) but I've been thinking that the whole thing ressembles a desert.
Anyway, I do have some invites left, so if you Gio run out, let me know and I'll send mine to whoever asks first.

It said I'm not old enough ;__;

I'm getting a friend on facebook to send one my way. XD

BioKraze wrote:

I'm gonna have to say no. It took a heroic amount of effort on Aine's part to get me to join FB in the first place (that and Lady Lortab was kinda egging me on too), and I thought I was a sellout for "crawling over to something like Myspace or Facebook." I also have names and passwords for way too many sites that I haven't visited or posted in, like, ever, and I haaaaaate having useless passwords and usernames like that.

TL;DR, I'll be uncool and stay with FB.

Yeah, you're just .... I'd say anti-tech, but that's not right. At least so far with G+, you don't have to worry about apps. Which is cool.

Likewise, I'm in   Encircle me all up in the hizzouse if you also are in, or ask for an invite if you want in!  My profile.

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satyreyes wrote:

Likewise, I'm in   Encircle me all up in the hizzouse if you also are in, or ask for an invite if you want in!  My profile.

I've joined Google+ and added you to a few of my circles! I quite like your profile picture

Is it really? Enough that I actually want to be on there despite the rights-to-posted-intellectual-property/entertainment mess?

Because if the other option is being Hipster of the Future? The choice between two levels of pretentiousness is something.

Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

Enough that I actually want to be on there despite the rights-to-posted-intellectual-property/entertainment mess?

This is the part of the ToS that I found even more abhorrent that what Facebook does. And the fact that Google decided that by a friend sending me a Google+ invite that was an opening to start sending me emails about everything said friend was doing on Google+. That was weird.

im curious of google+. i dont know how much i'd be on...do you need a google account? i have one, but ugh google is actually very confusing to me :s (well,it's mixed with my youtube, and sometimes its displays my yahoo email?) and why do you need invites, if you dont mind me asking? i went to the site, and it said i couldnt register, so you can only get one with an invite? who was determined who gets one, like first come first serve? XD

also, i dont think it's bad to change site if thats what all your friends are doing. it's a fad but, i loved myspace but just none of my friends (irl and forum friends, not random people) got on. it's not fun to get on a social networking site and have no one add you or message you and no irl friends or people met online. (i do check my ms sometimes, it's usually just requests from bands and messages from them etc etc.) thats no fun, so changing internet sites is a fad im ok with going with i'd like to check it out myself, but i probably wouldnt log on it as much as fb if a majority of people didnt switch.

satyreyes wrote:

What am I missing?

It's an irrevocably right to use/reproduce (for Google+ and for advertising or other purposes). Forever. At least with Facebook or Flickr, you can end their rights to reprint/reproduce. It may take a little time, but it can be done.

Google, on the other hand, has the specter of Google Books hanging over that "irrevocable." And Google Books was really some ugly violating of copyrights.

They have announced they're going to revise the contract soon, but...

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satyreyes wrote:

But Google doesn't make a practice of abusing its users, so I guess I'm not worried.

Google Books says they do, though. That was an abusive mess that stretched copyright indulgences all out of shape before it was settled into a distasteful state of legality where all responsibility was put on the copyright holders to notify Google they were further abusing when there's no way they didn't already know. And in a world of synergy, with a company who have their hands in a lot, I don't know where the limits on "promote" are and they aren't clarifying.

Which means, if I do Google+, which I inevitably will the moment another invite comes my way, I'll just be really really careful about what I post/share until they do start clarifying or limiting themselves not in spirit but in the text of the contract(s).

Outside of that, it does look pretty good and, as the design folk say, intuitive. You're right that I'm being extra-cautious and there is probably little to fear, but I was one of the many who did get screwed in Google Books even as I was and am a person who uses the service a lot.