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“It’s almost like having a V.I.P. pass to the Internet.”
—Some dude talking about how special it is to be part of an invitation-only social networking service like Google+. Can you imagine? It's like having a V.I.P. pass to barber school. It's like having a V.I.P. pass to the Census Bureau. It's like having a V.I.P. pass to the MALL. Except each of those things might have some scintilla of utility. V.I.P. pass to the Internet. Get out of here.
It's like having a VIP pass to an STD clinic.
@Maura Johnston: That might actually be useful. Not for me, of course! But for some people…
It's like having a VIP pass to a club that is really smugly proud of having a "VIP Section."
It's like having a VIP pass to the sump.
It's like having a VIP pass that you actually paid for before realizing that the *real* VIPs got in for free.
It's like having a VIP pass to a place where people you don't know are shouting at you and you don't recognize them and why can't you reject people on Google+ like you can on Facebook, no I DO NOT WANT YOUR PR SPAM IN ANOTHER PLACE, THANK YOU CRAPPY MUSICIAN.
Whoa, sorry, guys. Google Plus really sucks though. All that work just to get people to leave you alone?
Just wait until Tumblr goes down for the 38th time today you'll change your tune.
It's like having a VIP pass to the set of 'VIP'.
It's like having a VIP pass to New Jersey.
Very Important Paisan.
@Dave Bry Looking at my NJ Transit bus pass, perhaps I should've taken this back.
I don't like the idea of it being an exclusive social network, and I'm sure google has no plans of keeping it exclusive much longer. That said, I like G+. It's clean and it's much easier to quickly update things while I'm working without seeing a million other distracting tidbits. Maybe that's me.
It's not really all that exclusive though! It's the whole dumb illusion of exclusivity that is an outgrowth of this noxious culture where everybody thinks they're celebrities and makes duck faces at cameras. UGH.
@Maura Johnston You seriously need to update your Voice profile with a duck face pose.
@Maura Johnston Of course it's not exclusive. You can't have 10 million exclusive members and new FREE invites going out every day. People who want to feel self-important are always going to find a way. I'll admit the first day getting an invite made me feel cool, but in the same way being invited to a party makes you feel cool. Like someone thought about you. Not invisible, but also definitely not famous. I feel like Twitter is WAY more about some self-aggrandizing idea of celebrity than Google+ is. Most of the reason they held back on invites was technical, making sure the system could handle it, and not for helping their supply and demand curve (though it ultimately served both functions).
OH HEY YOU GUYS THIS JOEY CAMIRE GUY HAD A DAY 1 G+ INVITE! *fans self*
@Jolie whew, I'm glad no one missed the point.
Also, scintilla. Great word.
It's like having a VIP pass to a DVD boxed set of Lost.
A VIP pass to a focus group for non-alcoholic beer?
As WC Fields said, "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."
@BadUncle Or as Groucho Marx said: well, the exact same thing because that was one of his.
(SO torn about writing this because I hate correcting people as much as I love Groucho.)
@A Snood Mood Another reason not to join my club.
A VIP pass to the back of the DMV line.
It could be worse. The VIPs of Google+ could have commenter numbers.
@Tulletilsynet Are you speaking for the lesser people #333? You will not have a VIP Pass to the next Awl Bawl.
I have invites (who needs?). Actually, this is how sad it is…I cannot even give away invites.
@ecgroom Just message me at tdkeiser@googlewave.com
It's like having a VIP pass to 1998.
It's like being in the carpool lane on the information superhighway.
Google plus has been repeatedly annoying though I like Spotify so far. I was going over an overlooked album article on The Guardian and now I have PJ Harvey's latest on repeat.