Google groups is a poor attempt at Facebook's triumphant effort, the groups are irritating, hard to find and in some cases you have to apply for membership. I ended up joing the group Atheism vs Christianity which is something i have no quarrel with and i don't plan on contributing to the group. I find the whole goggle groups irritating and think that Facebook have the right idea on how groups should work while Google clearly don't.
heres the URL if you are remotley interested:
http://groups.google.com/group/Atheism-vs-Christianity?msg=subscribe&hl=en
2 comments:
Hey Glen. Very detailed post, but Google Groups actually has nothing to do with Facebook. While Facebook is a social networking website (connecting friends and building on relationships), Google Groups is a newsgroup collection, hosting a large amount of the original Usenet newsgroups and allowing users to add to what exists, and make their own. Newsgroups (and therefore Google Groups) are not built for the purpose of relationships, just discussion of common interests.
I have one question for you: why would you join a group which you are sure is of no interest to you whatsoever? Perhaps your experience of Google Groups might have been better if you'd chosen a group you were actually interested in.
If you were looking to compare a Google service to Facebook, perhaps you should be looking at Google's Orkut (social networking) rather than Google Groups (newsgroup - not an attempt at social networking). LOL.
Forgot to say: for more info on newsgroups see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup
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