Google+ Is More Popular Than You Think

[BrotherRool]

On a personal note, I find the subscription system useless, and the idea of challenging television fascinating. I've many subscriptions, and I tend to just go to specific ones and watch videos from their channel, rather than go through the mire of suggested videos in the feed.

I never go for the suggested videos they have been universally rubbish since the channel change, but I tend to visit
youtube.com/feed/subscriptions/u instead of the homepage now which is purely a list of updates to channels you've subscribed to. Luckily I subscribed to a lot of channels because I find it much harder to find new things with the redesign

 

[uncanny474]

Part of that is probably their child groups, like Gmail and Youtube.

Another significant part is probably Google Hangouts, which is the single coolest thing to come out of Google+ or possibly anything ever.

What exactly is Google Hangouts? I've heard people talking about it, but I have no idea what it is.

OT: I for one accidently signed up to Google+ during one of the more recent Gmail updates. I doubt I'm the only one in that boat. Any of my activity is based solely on my Youtube or Gmail account usage.

Google Hangouts is kind of like a skype call or other videochat service. The reason it's so cool is that it has a number of built-in features and free add-ons that let you share more than just video and text. The coolest and most-used feature is the ability to watch youtube videos with the other people in the call in real time, letting anyone pause, add a video to the current list of videos, etc. It's kind of like when you and your friends would get together and huddle around a laptop to share the cute kitten videos except better in every way. Also, obligatory XKCD link. http://xkcd.com/920/

 

[Andrew_C]

Seeing as Google try their hardest to force you into getting a Google+ account when you use their services (I've had to specifically opt out twice), I very much doubt that even a 10th of the supposed users are active. I have also noticed that several prominent Open Source advocates who I follow, who used to be fanatical about Google+ have pretty much abandoned it and gone back to using Twitter or their personal blogs as their primary means of communication.

 

[FoolKiller]

All they did was add everyone with a gmail or youtube account to the tally. Nothing special, almost none of those people use the social tools.

You are true.

I keep getting harassed by them to use my + account. I'm getting to the point of wanting to ditch my gmail because it wants me to be integrated into everything. I only want email. I don't want to be logged into youtube if I am checking my email.