come to where the flavor is. come to fucktard country.

[rone]

So, until recently, one of your online social circles was plagued by a complete fucktard, one that made you miss the last fucktard who wasn't that bad but who nonetheless left several years ago after receiving a lot of abuse due to being a fucktard, and then in another online social circle, you find the first guy, so you give him another chance, and, well, he's still a fucktard, and even his friends tell him, "Dude, you act like a fucktard."

And by "you", i mean "me".  Anyway, i'm tired of fucktards.  The content that i'm seeing on Google Plus reminds me a lot of good Usenet discussions, and by "a lot" i mean "sometimes it's fucking exhausting to keep up with the crap."  It doesn't have the softness of Facebook that's primarily fueled by your high school classmates and your family.  And it's even higher in nerdrage quotient than LiveJournal's peak, and it's perhaps similar in quality to Twitter but has much larger caliber because there's actually room to expand commentary.  So of course we are waiting for Google to fuck it all up because they're very eager to get on with winning the "next Microsoft" title belt.

Fucktards... why did it have to be fucktards?

Comments

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I found myself wondering why all political talk on Google+ tended to revolve around the supermassive black hole of libertarianism, and then remembered: "Dude, you started following a gazillion old nerds you remembered from Usenet; of course the conversation is all going to be drenched in libertarianism."

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

(Pssst! Hey, Rone, you've got a spambot in the first comment.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

PS: If you delete the spambot then I should probably point out my comment is referring to a deleted comment, not mmcirvin.

For posterity.

Or something.

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? Matt is well-known to be a "sleeper spammer" who created a fake identity years ago, slowly luring people into trusting him, all in preparation for an ORGY OF SPAM soon to appear all over you screen in 2012.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Great comment! I found this informative for my purposes. Keep up the good work!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Really?? But i thought it was an honest remark!

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

I've had zero problem with Google Plus. But then, this may be because I've completely ignored it. I only joined for two reasons:
(1) right when everyone was desperate to get an invite, a friend sent some kind of notification via G+ and Google tacked on an ad for Google Plus, so I thought "hey, I wonder if Google will let me sign up."
(B) A lot of people in my corner of the RPG blogosphere had been talking about using G+ for gaming, so I figured I might want to get in on that at some point. (Still can't actually do that right now, but at least I've got the account...)

My sole interaction with my G+ account is periodically checking notifications to see who these people adding me are.

[surferelf.livejournal.com]

I'm still having trouble with the concept of actual content being on G+.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

It's always fucktards.

[prock.livejournal.com]

You prompted me to do one of my intermittent g+ checks. Needless to say, the experience got the grade of G+, somewhere just south of F.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

I saw this sorta thing coming in my own use of G+, but I think I'm past it.
For me, at least, it started by not letting the Notifications dictate my use of G+, and instead, if something has scrolled off the feed, then try to close it out or let it go. I'm not keeping score, and I don't mind losing a good argument to decent people and/or kibologists, and I think you, Matt, Rich, and perhaps even Otis are both. I'm probably leaving someone out.

As for ignoring your notifications, the best way is to spam them-- leave a comment in a Wil Wheaton thread-- he regularly hits 450, and who, especially not partially-employed actors, have the time to read that many comments after they run at the mouth? You'll get notifications for eternity until the thread hits the max.