I was having a conversation with my non tech-savvy roommate last night about G+, and one of the things we noticed was that the name itself is just completely uncompelling. What does G+ mean? What does it imply? We concluded it would be a great name for a new calculator.
Facebook at least has the tangential meaning originating from printed college 'facebooks' which a substantial portion of the (American) population is familiar with.
I had no clue what a printed facebook was until recently. I went to a community college that didn't have one of these and have never actually seen a real one. I'd be willing to be that the substantial portion of Americans which you speak of is actually the minority when it comes to knowing about the etymology of the word facebook.
On the other hand Google+ sounds like a better version of Google. Which I feel is more in line with their vision than merely an attempt at a Facebook killer.
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I was having a conversation with my non tech-savvy roommate last night about G+, and one of the things we noticed was that the name itself is just completely uncompelling. What does G+ mean? What does it imply? We concluded it would be a great name for a new calculator.
Facebook at least has the tangential meaning originating from printed college 'facebooks' which a substantial portion of the (American) population is familiar with.
I had no clue what a printed facebook was until recently. I went to a community college that didn't have one of these and have never actually seen a real one. I'd be willing to be that the substantial portion of Americans which you speak of is actually the minority when it comes to knowing about the etymology of the word facebook.
On the other hand Google+ sounds like a better version of Google. Which I feel is more in line with their vision than merely an attempt at a Facebook killer.