<story><title>You know, Google, the web already had this feature</title><url>http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/11/Googleplus-pages-notifications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaoD</author><text>What I specially hate about Google+ is the fact that Google can&apos;t stop spamming me to join it.&lt;p&gt;Now even Google Play comments need to be part of Google+.&lt;p&gt;You know what, Google? Fuck you. No. Fuck you twice. I won&apos;t join that fucking horrid place. I don&apos;t even have Facebook, why would I join a crappy social network?</text></item><item><author>kunai</author><text>Google has overstayed the web&apos;s welcome.&lt;p&gt;What started out as a quirky, innovative company that bucked all of the suit-and-tie trends (see Microsoft, HP, even Apple in some regards) of Silicon Valley, has now turned into a monstrous calamity with no regard for its users. Up until 2009, it was breezy and beautiful, but right now, at this moment, it&apos;s a different story altogether.&lt;p&gt;Don&apos;t be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven&apos;t managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they &lt;i&gt;can&apos;t&lt;/i&gt; afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.&lt;p&gt;This harkens back far before Google, far before any company dared invest in the Internet. This type of corporate mentality is one we see often, but tend to forget quickly. Apple did it in the 1990s. Microsoft is doing it now; look at Windows 8.&lt;p&gt;Any corporation that strays too far from its roots with fail. Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that&apos;s the worst type of failure there is. Do I &lt;i&gt;hope&lt;/i&gt; they get their shit together and start being Google again? Of course. They could start by fixing YouTube, exhuming Google Reader, and rethinking the decision to end iGoogle.&lt;p&gt;And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pkulak</author><text>You&apos;re acting like the act of &quot;joining&quot; is some huge deal. You already have an account with Google. &quot;Joining&quot; Google+ probably flips 3 bits in some BigTable database somewhere. The only reason you are getting so self-righteous about it is because Google is giving you the option. If you don&apos;t _do_ anything on Google+, what&apos;s it matter?&lt;p&gt;Interesting that you bring up you Facebook anti-creds. Do you also not own a TV?</text></comment>
<story><title>You know, Google, the web already had this feature</title><url>http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/11/Googleplus-pages-notifications/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kaoD</author><text>What I specially hate about Google+ is the fact that Google can&apos;t stop spamming me to join it.&lt;p&gt;Now even Google Play comments need to be part of Google+.&lt;p&gt;You know what, Google? Fuck you. No. Fuck you twice. I won&apos;t join that fucking horrid place. I don&apos;t even have Facebook, why would I join a crappy social network?</text></item><item><author>kunai</author><text>Google has overstayed the web&apos;s welcome.&lt;p&gt;What started out as a quirky, innovative company that bucked all of the suit-and-tie trends (see Microsoft, HP, even Apple in some regards) of Silicon Valley, has now turned into a monstrous calamity with no regard for its users. Up until 2009, it was breezy and beautiful, but right now, at this moment, it&apos;s a different story altogether.&lt;p&gt;Don&apos;t be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven&apos;t managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they &lt;i&gt;can&apos;t&lt;/i&gt; afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.&lt;p&gt;This harkens back far before Google, far before any company dared invest in the Internet. This type of corporate mentality is one we see often, but tend to forget quickly. Apple did it in the 1990s. Microsoft is doing it now; look at Windows 8.&lt;p&gt;Any corporation that strays too far from its roots with fail. Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that&apos;s the worst type of failure there is. Do I &lt;i&gt;hope&lt;/i&gt; they get their shit together and start being Google again? Of course. They could start by fixing YouTube, exhuming Google Reader, and rethinking the decision to end iGoogle.&lt;p&gt;And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>You know, I don&apos;t really like Google+ but I have had no difficulty in opting out of it and declining to share things like my YouTube favorites and so forth (with a few exceptions that were wholly by choice). I&apos;m not happy with their social strategy in general, but I don&apos;t feel it&apos;s anything like as burdensome on the user as Facebook&apos;s, which caused me to stop using that service altogether.</text></comment>