Finally. Google+ without teenagers made it very weak against other social networks like Twitter and Facebook.<p>Teenagers love social networks, they are their most avid users, Google+ should have accepted teenagers much sooner.
So now instead of college kids complaining about an influx of teenagers (Facebook), we can have technology enthusiasts complaining about an influx of teenagers! The "what's hot" section has less of a tech bias than it used to already, but I wonder what it will look like in a month.
If Google wants Google+ to actually become a serious contender, they need to make it friendly for mobile.<p>1. Make it compatible with iPad. I generally don't even try to follow links to Google+ when I'm on my iPad, as if the page has anything more than a handful of comments, it will almost surely run the browser out of memory and cause it to exit.<p>2. Make their mobile app understand Google+ URLs. I wanted to read a Google+ link that was submitted to HN yesterday, so I actually clicked it in the hope it hadn't gotten too big. It had. After pointlessly trying four times, I copied the link, and then I went and downloaded their Google+ app, opened it...and discovered it had no way that I could find to give it a link to a Google+ page and have it display it!
More importantly, this finally means that Google+'s Big Push into Japan - their collaboration with J-pop megagroup AKB48 - can be completed, as before most of the members were too young for their own accounts (man, giving over 100 girls Nexus Ss can't be that cheap...)<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/117147321771860727748" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/117147321771860727748</a>
I wonder what this could mean for using Google+ in the classroom – perhaps teachers could post links in a circle exclusively for the students in their class, and allow students to comment and discuss those links. Also, on a hangout, students could more easily collaborate on group projects, especially if they use Google Docs.
Most teens don't care about privacy, what they want is to be wherever all of their friends are (i.e. Facebook.) G+ probably isn't that place yet, but maybe one day...
They are so totally afraid of Facebook-World taking over the Internet. It is as if nothing else exist on the Internet besides Google and Facebook. What a terrible days these are to be on the net.