On Social Media

A daunting question A few days ago I wrote this: "Google disappointed her most diehard supporters. Now that G+ is destined to close we ask for four things: 1) Transparency. We like to know things like: a) How many people were active users of the platform (so to have an idea how many people were disappointed by this decision) b) How many posts were published in a daily basis. c) Countries where G+ was more popular. 2) Give G+ as a gift to humanity. That means opensource its code and make it possible to run independently from Google. This won't be the first time where Google is opensourcing a project of her. 3) Give the tools to transfer our work from G+ to Blogger, WordPress or some opensourced social networks. 4) Make Communities, Collections and Events separate services that can have a life of their own, the way photos and hangouts became. These are some urgently needed steps Google have to take to restore our confidence to her which is currently totally broken. Otherwise Goo...

I will join another social network only if: a) It's decentralized and opensourced. b) It has the proper tools to import my G+ Collections. (I maintained various Collections with thousands of posts) Otherwise I will revert to blogging in WordPress. As about the G+ I will stay till the last day for three reasons : 1)I love G+ so much and the natural thing to do for something we love is to be there at its dying process, the same thing we do when somebody we love is dying. 2)Ten months is an adequate time and an opportunity to know better the beloved die hard users of G+ and cultivate human relationships with people I otherwise wouldn't have the incentive to know. ( So here a suggestion: let's all follow each other in this community till we reach the limit of 5 thousands! ) 3)To show Google that this was the biggest mistake she made in her history. When you create a platform that inspires so much devotion even after the announcement of its imminent demise, that's a living p...