Umm, so Google, I hit your +1 button and it doesn’t post to Google+ (it’s a opt-in tab on profiles, but who’s going to see that). You really should think through these names. Just saying.
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Umm, so Google, I hit your +1 button and it doesn’t post to Google+ (it’s a opt-in tab on profiles, but who’s going to see that). You really should think through these names. Just saying.
Google+: View post on Google+
I know. what’s the point? if it’s not going to show up in the feed, i’m not going to go looking for it?
Sure, most of my socialness around social media is just saying “hey this is a good article, maybe others will like it.” If no one sees the +1, then it’s just busy work. It doesn’t even go into bookmarks (why don’t they integrate this with bookmarks or rethink the whole bookmark idea?). I guess what they want you to do is the second step of “Share on Google+”
Are you referring to when you’re on another site and you see the +1 button? In the past I noticed on other sites when you chose +1 it didn’t give you the automatic option to post it on your feed. But, I now see that a message box opens up and then you can post on your Google+ feed.
Joe — I hadn’t noticed that. What sites are you seeing that on?
I noticed this first on MSNBC. I click on the +1 and then a small text box opens up that allows you to share the item or not. I think it gets listed under your +1 list on Google+. But, you do have to do the 2nd step to then post it on your feed. Maybe that’s what Martin was originally referring to.
Try it on this MSNBC page (I just did & it did it for me):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45162958/ns/us_news-life/#.TrQWb7LQtVU
I’ve also seen it on Gawker and some Italian news sites, but not everywhere (I don’t see the 1+ button on any of the news items I’ve read there.
I was referring mostly to the new Chrome extension. You can click the button to vote for a page (I guess that’s what we’re doing) but that isn’t shared anywhere very prominently – it’s mostly for Google’s benefit, or should be, in tweaking search results. Once you’ve done it, the Chrome extension has a box to write something to share.
OK. Got it. I rarely use Chrome.