social

from a 2021 study, instagram close friends featured demonstrated 61.2% effectiveness in strengthening friendships among adolescents, mostly driven by:

1. seamless integration into stories workflow with clear visual indicator (green circle)

2. power of exclusivity with privacy (no notifs when you're added or removed)

personality hire 🌈🤙 fullstack & ux, building /uno

I loved g+
I really thought it was the future of contact management and social graph sharing.

I liked google talk and google hangouts too.

I think I like pain.

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still mostly analog. patterns, builder, entrepreneur, analyzing your transactions since 2016

haha you were def an intended power user of G+ then! i agree with @ted that they asked the user to do waaay too much upfront and that's why they ultimately failed