Colleges Join In For Google+ Pages Launch
Mike Petroff,
.eduGuru,
Nov 08, 2011
So Google has launched 'pages' in Google+, and businesses and brands (as Wired says) invaded the social networking site yesterday evening. "Curiously, considering how aggressive Google has been about forcing real names on Google Plus, there seems to be zero verification for Pages." See also this item and this item. From my own perspective is was a disaster. Now mind you, I've got several thousand people in my circles, and I was enjoying listening to them post back and forth about things. But pages are intended for branding businesses and such - they're advertisements. Anyhow, the notices immediately began to flood my Google+ stream. As I complained yesterday, the page notices were in my in-box, they were in my stream, they were in comment threads, they were everywhere! I threw up my hands and left. I took a peek today but the stream of shared G+ pages continues, and commenting on other items seems to have been reduced to a short sentence or less. But it's more than just that - I realized as I watched the flood of pages being created that Google is effectively replacing the web. And I'm not sure I really want to have any part of that.
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