Gyroscopic Investing

Because I like GooglePlus, I am going to start a PP community over there.

What's forum features don't satisfy you here that you want to start a G+ community?

Interesting timing...

"Google is breaking up its struggling social network Google+"
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-p ... z3TT3FUvEd

I'm spread out on too many "platforms"... FB, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn. One more discrete forum to check become an added burden. I know about the RSS feeds here, but it's not two-way, so it's not really good...

There's no such thing as a Twitter "group", FB sucks, I reserve my LinkedIn for my real job, and I like the usability of G+, and am in several Communities there, and they work well, so why not a PP Community on G+?

I'd maybe relent if I could subscribe to an RSS feed of Gyro that excluded "Other Discussions", because I find I waste too much time wading through junk to find the pearls I want. That would reduce the pain level of sifting through too much crud to a point where I might not bother doing anything.

 

ochotona wrote: I'm spread out on too many "platforms"... FB, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn. One more discrete forum to check become an added burden. I know about the RSS feeds here, but it's not two-way, so it's not really good...

There's no such thing as a Twitter "group", FB sucks, I reserve my LinkedIn for my real job, and I like the usability of G+, and am in several Communities there, and they work well, so why not a PP Community on G+?

I'd maybe relent if I could subscribe to an RSS feed of Gyro that excluded "Other Discussions", because I find I waste too much time wading through junk to find the pearls I want. That would reduce the pain level of sifting through too much crud to a point where I might not bother doing anything.

Whatever happened to social network being the guys at the bar every Friday at 530? I feel so old.

Like Ad Orientem I too feel old, even in my early 30's...Besides, aren't most of us on here libertarian introverts? Never touched facebook/linkedin personally, I don't think I even know how to social network 

Mike59 wrote: Like Ad Orientem I too feel old, even in my early 30's...Besides, aren't most of us on here libertarian introverts? Never touched facebook/linkedin personally, I don't think I even know how to social network 

+1  I don't do any social networking online. I think it's just an engraved invitation for invasion of privacy.

You guys are kidding about not being on social media, right? FYI, I'm in my mid-50s.

ochotona wrote: You guys are kidding about not being on social media, right? FYI, I'm in my mid-50s.

Absolutely serious here. I run a blog, but I use a pen name. That's as close to social networking as you are going to get with me, unless you happen to wander into the Quarterdeck on a Friday afternoon around 5:30 or so.

ochotona wrote: You guys are kidding about not being on social media, right? FYI, I'm in my mid-50s.

nope never touch the stuff, and have no interest or desire to try....   

(mid 40's)

Mike59 wrote: Interesting timing...

"Google is breaking up its struggling social network Google+"
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-p ... z3TT3FUvEd

Sounds like a good contrarian play

I like GooglePlus. If I goes away, I just move the content elsewhere, probably LinkedIn. No biggie. I back it all up.

Must be the multiple column format in Google+, but I have never been able to wrap my head around it in the few times I've tried to use it.  I like linear, drill down to the topic, and give me a single topic list forums like this one.

Cortopassi wrote: Must be the multiple column format in Google+, but I have never been able to wrap my head around it in the few times I've tried to use it.  I like linear, drill down to the topic, and give me a single topic list forums like this one.

Yes, this forum RULES!!! 

Ad Orientem wrote: Whatever happened to social network being the guys at the bar every Friday at 530? I feel so old.

It's available on Netflix!

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ochotona wrote: You guys are kidding about not being on social media, right? FYI, I'm in my mid-50s.

Not at all.  Social networking is so high school.  It's for children and adult-children with the attention span of a gnat.  40 is the new 30 and all that jazz.  Here's a great reason to avoid it: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31710738

And I resent your remarks about what a waste of time "Other Discussions" is.  Are you getting conversations of that lofty calibre on your social networking sites?