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[foxfirefey]

Why I left Google:

As it turned out, sharing was not broken. Sharing was working fine and dandy, Google just wasn’t part of it. People were sharing all around us and seemed quite happy. A user exodus from Facebook never materialized. I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice, “social isn’t a product,” she told me after I gave her a demo, “social is people and the people are on Facebook.” Google was the rich kid who, after having discovered he wasn’t invited to the party, built his own party in retaliation. The fact that no one came to Google’s party became the elephant in the room.

Google+: The Charge Of The Like Brigade

Could Google ever have won? I think so. But not by blitz. By envelopment.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Wow; thanks.

In other words, Google could have been Tumblr. :)

Also, it reminded me the game of Go. Google, Go, coincidence? I THINK NOT.

Envelopment indeed.

[liv]

Ooh, thanks for those. The Like Brigade one is particularly interesting. I mean, TechCrunch is so male skewed it's almost hilarious: absolutely nothing on the wallet names issue, still thinking that Facebook is the latest "cool" thing since Tumblr and Pinterest are beneath their notice. But still, I really like the point about Google getting in your face when they could have carried on just being an unnoticed part of the internet and gathered far more data that way.