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	<title>Jon Pape dot com &#187; Usability</title>
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		<title>12 Reasons Google Plus Sucks (Google+)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google+ is Google&#8217;s third attempt (Buzz, Wave, Plus&#8230;) to launch a social media platform and they still haven&#8217;t gotten it right. I can put my friends in circle. Who cares? Its a pain in the butt. I have 370 Facebook friends. I would be putting people in circles all day. We can create a hangout. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_710" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.jon-pape.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tom.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-710" title="tom" src="http://www.jon-pape.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/tom-300x139.png" alt="" width="300" height="139" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">This post is much better is you read it in his voice.</p></div>
<p>Google+ is Google&#8217;s third attempt (Buzz, Wave, Plus&#8230;) to launch a social media platform and they still haven&#8217;t gotten it right.</p>
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<li>I can put my friends in circle. Who cares? Its a pain in the butt. I have 370 Facebook friends. I would be putting people in circles all day.</li>
<li>We can create a hangout.  Did someone tell Meetup.com because I&#8217;m sure they will be terrified.</li>
<li>No ones on Google+ but digital marketers, social media gurus, tech people, and Brittany Spears (at least her PR agency).</li>
<li>There is no added value to brands.  Can brands create compelling app/space/content that would convince non-users to check out Google+?  No.</li>
<li>Verification sucks.  I wouldn&#8217;t create a link to some random social network if I was worried about it succeeding (see Buzz, Wave). Why would I create a link to Google Plus?  Additionally, most companies have to pay a developer to do this.  Google Places is more business friendly with that awful postcard verification system.  PS. Most companies don&#8217;t allow development on sites during the Holidays.</li>
<li>The help section sucks.  Hire someone to make it user friendly and complete.  Ask Matt Cutts to help with your searchability.</li>
<li>I know you are in a war with Facebook but release your API so we can use it from Hootsuite.</li>
<li>Why won&#8217;t you allow contests &amp; sweepstakes on Google Plus?</li>
<li>Javascript is this language developers can use to tell people their website will not work in a user&#8217;s browser. It would be nice to tell users that certain functions do not work.  I just spent several minutes trying to find out a why a coworker&#8217;s couldn&#8217;t get the &#8220;add to circle&#8221; button to work in an older version of IE.</li>
<li>How about putting the added functionality like hangouts, invites, and create pages in the navigation at the top where people will look for it?</li>
<li>Why is it such a pain in the butt to navigate between pages? (Facebook sucks at this too)</li>
<li>Like 7, release the API so we can get cool Chrome and Firefox Plug-ins.</li>
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