Writing a Story About the Impact of Google+ -- and its Shutdown
I'm writing a story about G+ and will be pitching it to magazines. I'm looking for stories about how Google+ deeply impacted people's lives. The other day, I heard from someone who had met his wife here. It could be anything, but what I'm most looking for is human connection.
Please comment here briefly, and I will follow up separately if it seems like a match. Thanks.
I'm writing a story about G+ and will be pitching it to magazines. I'm looking for stories about how Google+ deeply impacted people's lives. The other day, I heard from someone who had met his wife here. It could be anything, but what I'm most looking for is human connection.
Please comment here briefly, and I will follow up separately if it seems like a match. Thanks.
Not only have I met amazing friends here, but people I consider closer to me than my family.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I was lucky enough enough to meet the love of my life here.
With his support, and that of my G+ family and friends, I started a whole new life.
Just my story in a nutshell.
While you still can, search for #autismuniverse - that should show you how I used the service, and what it meant to have a clean, visual, easy to use system when I was completely mindfucked by my kiddo's behaviors.
ReplyDeleteThe daily photochallenge #joinindaily by Johnny Wills inspired many people to go through their photographs, or even make new ones and to post them for the daily themes. It connected people from all around the world because we were looking at each others pictures and commented on it. Thus we learned to know each other and learned a lot about the respective country of the photographers. For me it almost was of therapeutic use after a very bad private experience which I had to digest. Good luck for your article!!
ReplyDeleteGoogle+ communities offered me a way to bring together people who are interested in my meditation teaching. The community I formed faded away to a large extent as people gravitated more toward Facebook, but the interactions we had while it was in its heyday led to a total shift in what I do professionally. It led to me finding new ways of teaching online, and more than anything it gave me a sense of being supported by people who care about what I do. My life will never be the same.
ReplyDeleteI have been on Google Plus since it was still in Beta.Circa 2011.I went here straight from MySpace, bypassing facebook entirely!I did not join fb til November of 2018. Google Plus, especially with its shared circles, instantly introduced me to many humans in my main tribes.Cat rescue, metaphysics, politics (I;m a Deplorable!), organic gardening, and beauty, even body piercing stuff and great music. I would never have met the amazing people, in REAL LIFE too, except through G+. I know for a fact many homeless cats got adopted thanks to Google Plus.And I know i never would have learned about may of the special events in Washington DC if not for Google Plus. Google Plus enabled me to have a safe space to be real, a place where my real family and most of my real life friends never knew existed, yet i could still reach many thousands of people.Then when i discovered YouTube as a creator, it was Google Plus that was my primary means to promote my videos.I was able to fuse my love of makeup, skincare, cats and other things in those circles and on my channel.I learned SO MUCH from people on Google Plus including many not even "friends". Even people who were mean to me here taught me some things. Google Plus also gained me real life friends all over the world including some countries where I;d have never thought I could make friends! Google Plus was a blessing in my life that helped make my life in a town where i do not have lots of what I consider "friends".Google Plus should never have been taken from us but if that is how it has to be, I am grateful.And I wish i would not be losing touch with so many people.There are so may new networks to join and even if i joined all of them I know I;ll still miss so many good people. If you know me and we are friendly,be assured I will miss you!
ReplyDeleteI pretty much live blogs my daughters birth, which my wife and I did solo in the jungles of Costa Rica.
ReplyDeleteThe e-NABLE community began with a Google Plus community and did most of its formative and collaborative work there. We have now delivered thousands of free open-source prosthetics, there are chapters in 60+ countries, and an exciting new generation of devices is bubbling up.
ReplyDeleteOur story is told in many articles and videos at airtable.com - Short term picks - Airtable and at EnablingTheFuture.org.
We've happily relocated to http://wikifactory/+e-NABLE.
I’m a photographer who learned the craft because of the G+ Mentorship Program for Photographers. Through these volunteer mentorships I developed skills and have had/continue to have fantastic relationships with people from around the world. I’ve been in photo walks with 6 people and those with over a hundred, all though G+. Through the Scavenger Hunts I’ve been challenged for years. We’re up to #25 now I think. And then there are the massive meetups we’ve had in Las Vegas. A year ago October I was part of the party there for 4 days that were like a night and day slumber party!
ReplyDeleteThen there are the one-to-one connections that are solid IRL friendships and family. Since I live where there is a major travel hub, I meet about 5-6 online friends a year traveling through Phoenix. When I travel out East I’ve meet dear Plussers away from home. Guess what- these connections were born because at one time G+ gave us the world and let us blossom.
I really wished that I had had more time to get to know a lot of the people whose posts looked so interesting, but I could only glance at because of my business.
ReplyDeleteWell Gideon Rosenblatt - though the day to day use I met a lot of interesting people. But, the main point, is through the African Music Forum community I created and managed here (not a big one, 650+ members) I met even more interesting people, including artists. The end of this is quite sad...
ReplyDeleteGideon Rosenblatt is there an email address to use for posts elsewhere?
ReplyDeletehttps://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/b5rrzt/writing_a_story_about_the_impact_of_google_and/?
I made a tiny effort via a small community to literally save the world and as a result learned a great deal and solidified my understanding of many aspects of the energy crisis. Thorium Now
ReplyDeleteQuite a few years ago I joined a G+ community focused on San Diego Comic-Con. One of the users put out the call that maybe we could all meet up at the convention. About a dozen of us met up and we have been doing so regularly ever since, including expanding to other conventions. We maintain a Google Hangout so that we can chat and be friends all day long every day.
ReplyDeleteThank you, everyone, for your comments here. Sorry it's taken a while to respond. I'm going to follow up with a you of you individually. Edward Morbius, I don't really feel good about sharing my email publicly, but if folks want to reach out post-April 2nd via your subreddit, I can follow up.
ReplyDeleteThis may be slightly off topic, but would you say many are going to head for reddit?
ReplyDeleteCathy Mosley A few communities. Reddit really doesn't work well for personal communications, in my experience.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius Thank you. I have never had the chance to use it. The blessing of being busy with clients, but the down side is never being able to connect on one's own.
ReplyDeleteCathy Mosley I've run a personal bloggish site there, with sufficient concerns and frustrations (mostly named in the top, pinned, post) such that I'm moving that elewhere;
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There's also a G+ Exodus subreddit:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus