Most of you who are familiar with Social Networks have heard of or used Facebook, Twitter, and the now “out of style” services like MySpace, Friendster, etc.
Well, no surprise here that Google is throwing their hat in the ring (again). Now we have “Google+“ which is very similar to Facebook, but is supposed to be less spam-y (for now while it isn’t open to the public) and more user friendly. You can read about the features and info on Google+ here and here.
I haven’t been using Google+ for very long, but so far some of the features that are far better than Facebook are the “Circles”, (which are a much easier way to add your friends to different categories right away and access the different groups easily in the sidebar) and also the fact that you don’t have to actually go to a website and “log in” like the other Social Networks. If you google something or have gmail, you will automatically have a small black bar at the top of your web page that you can just click on when you’d like to access your Google+ account/profile/updates.
G+ screenshot
Now to compare Social Networks on a scale of 1-10 in “Total Assholery”.
Assholery includes things like friend requests from strangers, ad-spam, friend “suggestions” that seem to be pulled from someone’s ass and are never anyone you know (no thanks, 45-year old fat dude from Texas!), perverted comments/meat-market atmosphere, etc…
MySpace: Assholery Level 10– This site is so spamiful, atrocious, stupid, and filled with perverts that there is absolutely no reason to log on. Not even to bother deleting your account.
Twitter: Assholery Level 8– Twitter is fine for a quick “hot news” fix or if you care enough to read just updates from random people/celebs, but unless you’re an advertiser, this isn’t the best way to keep in contact with actual friends. You won’t see more idiotic details of people’s lives anywhere else at this level.
Facebook: Assholery Level 7– I’m being generous in only giving FB a 7 because in overall spam and nonsense, they are far worse than twitter. However, at least they have redeeming values that allow you to find/chat/contact your friends and family as well as keeping up with news/gossip AND playing mind-numbing (but fun) games all in one place. But their is such a huge number of ads, spam, viruses, and general assholery (“suggestions” from FB for people/things you have no interest in, meatmarket behavior, etc) that it’s likely to fail like MySpace sooner rather than later.
Google+: Assholery Level 4– So far, so good. No major ads, no complicated features, and pretty accurate “friend suggestions” (I actually found some real-life friends instead of strangers just by glancing at the “circle suggestions”). Another feature is the “hang-outs” which allows up to an 8 person video chat (buh-bye shitty FB chat!) as well the regular stuff like status updates and such. Organizing friendships is a breeze there! The only assholery thus far are the glitches that any new site has and a couple of missing features (the +1 button you see regularly now don’t “connect” with your Google+ like the Facebook “Like” button does, for example). Nothing major, though and I’d recommend giving it a try!
For now, Google+ is invite-only, so if you’d like an invite please post your email address clearly and I will be happy to send one to you. Please note that Google+ determines when and how many invites can be sent out, so I can only send them during the open-invite-windows.
Post email addys below in the comments or email me at Nein2232@gmail.com for your invite.
***Updated Note: If you receive your email containing the invite and you get a message saying “we have reached full capacity”, make sure you save the email/invite and just try again the next day. From what I understand the open the invite window at least once per day, so don’t discard the invite or email!!***
XO,
LR
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Bonjour, une invitation for me please! Google+ et nous CERCLERONS(Circle)
Saintbarth:
Bonjour, une invitation for me please! Google+ et nous CERCLERONS(Circle)
Sent! (To your email address you used to post here). If you have any probs receiving it, let me know
Hola gracias por el ofrecimiento, te agrdeceré mucho una invitación a google+, saludos desde la Ciudad de México.
Hi, Im from brasil, Rio de Janeiro.
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I liked one invite, please!
Thank you. Sorry, my english no good and my french is very very bad!
Is your portuguese good?
Gracias!
Google is taking over the world
John Kim said:
Google is taking over the world
It sure seems that way, doesn’t it?
Not to worry about this
Add me, ADD ME!!!!!!!!! Where is the link for me to sign-up or is that part of the ‘invite’ thing?
I LOVE your new picture, LR! Are you going blonde? You look fantastic!
Miss ya like crazy, hot stuff!
((HUG))
Roissy’s entire blog and twitter account are deleted. Lady Raine, did you or Denise Ramano have anything to do with this? Good going!
It’s now accessible at : http://heartiste.wordpress.com/ and it seems his whole archive is there too.
I don’t know why he did that, maybe he had too much problem with the old address.
http://www.halfsigma.com/2011/07/roissys-blog-is-gone.html
Concur with the guesses of some of the commenters: his “love” life must be suffering from women googling his name and is trying to hide the tracks by making many of them. Roissy to Citizen Renegade to Heartiste. Something about sunlight and disinfectants…
Knowledge is power. You’ve done a very good thing helping whatever woman he targets for his predations.
Aofoe and others are talking smack about you here Lady Raine,
http://sofiastry.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/wheres-roissy/
It seems you and Denise Ramano have insulted the sensibilities of some folk when you exposed Roissy.
Lady Raine, did Roissy physically stalk your home?
Below is a comment by Susan Walsh on her blog:
Hmmm, I don’t know anything other than what was publicly revealed. Roissy had given his real name in an interview with The Guardian. I think it was in 2007 or 2008. Perhaps this was before his blog got pretty raunchy, IDK. He and Lady Raine were going back and forth for a while. From my perspective, I detected enormous sexual tension. He was baiting her in a sort of negging way constantly. He clearly loathed her though, even though she was a regular in the comment threads. One day, he put up a post saying “Is this Lady Raine?” It was a pic of a porn star who did bear some resemblance to her. In that post, he also put up her Facebook pics, including some of her son, and he questioned her fitness as a mother. Very, very unwise move. He also posted pics of her house in Baltimore, including a pile of garbage bags out back. He implied that her home should be condemned, like something out of The Wire. One can only assume he drove to Baltimore and snapped those photos himself. It really got very weird.
Next thing we knew, Lady Raine had started a blog railing against Roissy. At first, no one thought much of it, but she traced him through the name he’d given the Guardian. She published his DC address, as well as the address of some members of his family. She also got hold of several photos of Roissy, which she claimed had been sent anonymously by readers. She claimed to have a source in his high school class.
He complained to WordPress, apparently, and she reluctantly removed the address information to avoid being shut down. At around this time, he deleted many posts from his blog, including one I had linked to that said something like, “Degrading women during sex gave me the best orgasms I ever had.” He boasted of pickup up women and trying to hurt them via anal sex.
She commented here several times back in the day. She is a terrible person – not educated, but very street smart. Roissy underestimated her. It was a very dark and disturbing set of events. I heard that Roissy lost his government job and had left DC. I have no idea if this is true.
I don’t think Roissy writes often at Heartiste. He is one of the best wordsmiths I have ever seen, and I haven’t seen it there in a while. Every so often a post there will have his telltale wit and sadism – it’s always a mix of the two. I confess I don’t read his blog regularly, though I probably should. It’s too Red Pill for me.
That’s all I know. I’m surprised, but having been around when this went down in 2009 apparently makes me somewhat unusual.
http://www.hookingupsmart.com/2011/10/07/hookinguprealities/89-of-college-students-hate-hookup-culture/#comment-65077