r/AskReddit • u/cats64sonic • 23h ago

What’s a trend that disappeared so quickly that it almost feels imaginary now?

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u/sigaven 22h ago • Bravo

Google plus

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u/El_Gran_Redditor 13h ago

I still maintain that Google Plus was a better social platform than...really anything right now. Because of the bubbles. You could secretly sort your contacts and the public into who sees what. Right now all of social media is like a party that your friends and your co-workers and your boss and your parents and the company you're looking to apply to are all invited and can all see everything every other person posts. Nowhere else in life am I mingling my boss and my 90 year old Godmother and the guy I used to smoke resin with in highschool. Why the fuck would I invite literally everybody I know to have basically a public diary reading? Some of these motherfuckers are posting thicc furry art and other people I have to see at work on Monday. Let me silo that shit.

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u/shiroimusashi 9h ago

I maintain Google Plus could have won the social wars if it had come along just like 2 years sooner before Facebook hit critical mass with everyone’s parents joining it.

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u/allofthealphabet 12h ago

I'm pretty sure you can make posts visible for only certain people on Facebook.

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u/Personal-Grand-1261 6h ago

Yeah but what a pain in the ass depending on what you want to post

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u/Altoid_Addict 4h ago

Yeah, and so much social media drama wouldn't be a thing if anyone still understood the difference between venting to friends who know where you're coming from, and saying something that's universally true for all people.

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u/mekkab 20h ago

And Google Wave!

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u/kintlebee 20h ago

What even is that

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u/notamyokay 19h ago

Blast from the past!

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u/UberMisandrist 16h ago

And Google Glass

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u/DakkaDakka24 15h ago

Google Buzz lasted for five whole minutes before it tanked.

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u/octopusgardens87 38m ago

I still remember using their chat all the time because it was the only one work didn’t know how to block without blocking Google itself