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Re: [LUG] Google plus, who's using it and what are your thoughts?

 

On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Dava wrote:

Now, to be honest, I was never one for social networking sites, but after moving house, i found it the best way for me to communicate with friends etc. Now at the moment i'm using *cough* Facebook *cough* but never been a huge fan. I Have a friend that works at Google and recently received an invite for Google+. I am still very new in using it so to give a full write up on it wouldn't be easy.

I've used FB, Twitter and LinkedIn for some time probably not as much as some people though. Seems to be a lot in the South West use it for business purposes as well as general chatter, etc.

Google+ word got out recently and basically it took off in a big way, Google tried throttling it with 15 invites only but now seem to have sorted things out for as many invites as needed. I can hand out invites if you require them to get yourselves up and running but please send them to my email rather than through LUG so we don't flood things. The invites aren't for a personal use, but purely to hear you views on the new service.

I've already had some "invites" (at least I think that's what they are!), however I keep getting the "max capacity" message )-:

However I'm struggling with Internet access right now - reduced to a load-balanced dual 2G connection since Thursday due to a big BT cock-up )-: It's actually faster this way than a 3G conection via Three in the evenings where I am ...

Gordon

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