Google+ and Facebook: The war is on, and I’m eating popcorn on the sidelines
All right, more fuel for my fire.
Google+ to companies, bands et.al.: “Go fuck yourselves”
Like Nine Inch Nails, I tried setting up G+ accounts for my musically inclined self (Alchemy) and my silly Danish record label (Spændstig Musik ltd).
Both those account are now suspended because they violate G+’s name policy.
Okay, I can dig that. They want people to use their real names, not stupid nicknames.
And apparently there’s a feature waiting around the corner that will enable us whores to set up company/band/event pages separately from all the personal profiles.
My question is: Will I be able to convert my two profiles to company pages, once that feature becomes available? Or will I have to start all over again? I’ll bet a million I’m not the first person to ask this, but I haven’t found any answer yet.
What would suck is having my two profiles completely deleted and having to start all over again. But they couldn’t possibly do that … could they?
Maybe I should back my shit up, just in case.
Facebook goes for some kind of shark-jumping record
In related news, Facebook continues to play the catch-up game by introducing “Lists,” ostensibly giving you the option of choosing which friends you want to hear from and which you’d rather forget ever existed.
Trying to one-up the Circle feature from G+, Facebook also introduces “Smart Lists” and immediately forces three-or-four of them on you without asking you. Now that’s how to roll out a feature, man! Just don’t give ‘em the option.
Well, that’s keeping in step with how Facebook usually rolls when they change the layout or add some new distraction from what the site is actually supposed to do.
If they keep jumping the shark like this, I won’t be sad when the shark finally eats ‘em.
