[acdha]

There were also some really bad decisions: for example, G+ on iOS would send you a push notification every time some rando who had you in their Gmail contacts joined G+ or added you to a circle. There was no way to turn that off other than disabling notifications entirely or deleting the app for something like half a year. I chose the latter long before they implemented it.

Circles were potentially interesting but if memory serves the first implementation was clumsy and I found it limiting because it required you to know what your followers were interested in and, if memory serves, didn't have a way to de-dupe shares so you'd see the same blog post shared by 20 people as separate notifications. My impression of that time was mostly seeing things I wasn't interested in or had seen before.

[raverbashing]

Yeah, that was the weirdest part, period

Forced increased followers + notification of every single one: creepy experience

[acdha]

Yeah, it was like something out of a cautionary short story.

Cool, I know them.

Oh, yeah, I haven’t talked with her in a while.

Wait, who’s that guy?

Huh, she responded to one Craigslist free stuff listing 3 years ago. Who cares?

That’s the landlord we sublet from for 3 months a decade ago.

… repeat for days …

Make it stop!