Does anyone actually use this? Signed up when it first started & it was deserted; a friend has just added me on it and it's looking pretty polished (and much better than FB) but still deserted...
Andy
I joined when it first started, but have never used it. No matter how good these things are, they're pretty useless unless people actually join the community. I can't see it really picking up.
I have 1306 people circled (I know, um, 2 of them in real life), and I've been circled by 361.
Think of it like twitter with richer media. I have three main circles - people who post stuff about cycling and bikes (523 people), science (239) people and technology people/mags/blogs (495).
There are huge communities of interest - e.g. it's massive for photography. That's kind of where it's gone - more about people with similar interests than people who know each other in real life.
Oh, circles can be shared - I'm happy to share mine if you let me know your username. If you search for dislocatedmtb you'll find my posts.
You need to find people to follow, as beej says. Follow (circle) a couple of mountain bikers, see who pops up on their threads, circle them, get rid of the ones who bore you, carry on. Took maybe a couple of weeks of activity to get a hundred or so people and pages circled. From NASA to mountain bikers around the world, to Dan Barham (who has posted a few cracking pictures).
Loads of people, just so happens I don't know any of them in the real world (almost, think I know a couple actually). Bit like this place...
+1
Waste of time!! Looks good ... But. Nothing happening!
Paulmgreen it's up to you who you listen to, and if nothing is happening it is because you aren't listening (following, have circled, friended, choose your preferred social media networking term) to anyone saying anything.
I fully appreciate plenty of people won't like it, or be remotely interested in it, but there are people there, posting pictures of and talking about mountain biking... Amongst many other things, but service across this is STW...
Nope. It's probably the one Google product I don't use.
I signed and could not descern anything. Gmail and calendar are still great tho.
I use it as a biking blog kinda thing. Much prefer it to Twitter for posting content as people actually respond to your posts whereas Twitter just feels like that message for aliens on the Voyager spacecraft - sending out a message into a massive void in the hope someone might see it!