[sings: **gonna lay down my burdens down by the riverside** ]
Does Google+ makes you feel like Miss Uganda in Kerry Washington's SNL skit?
WHO ARE THEY?
WHO IS ME?
WHO IS YOU?
WHO ARE THEY?
HOW AM I?!!
Hey Youtube World!
It's me, Evelyn.
Listen - I'm not part of a Youtube network.
I don't have a connect, like a contact at Youtube.
I don't even really make munty from my videos.
And I feel like even if I did, it would probably be $102.16 every four score and seven years.
Also, I'm a big girl.
I can handle change.
I went to like, three different elementary schools growing up.
I recently spent two weeks in South Korea where everybody would stop and look at my
brown face hair that grows up and not down.
My rent just went up.
The local radio station that played Prince and James Brown now plays Arcade Fire and
Vampire Weekend on a constant loop, but you know what I took it all in stride.
All of that?!?!
I took it in stride.
G+ and Youtube changes don't suck because they get in the way of my funds, or even because
they keep changing.
If I'm being honest with myself, G+ sucks because it hurts my pride.
When I'm not busy being a magical black girl twirling into oblivion, I sit at a desk as
a social media manager.
In my day to day life, at my job, G+ has almost brought me tears on like, three different
occasions.
Real salt water almost poured from my eye holes because of Google+.
Let me tell you what that does to someone like me.
I feel like if you are my age mate, for the majority of our lives we have been internet
users.
At this point, the Internet for us is so intuitive, so second nature, it's like --
Remember that video of a baby who kept swiping a magazine because it thought it was an iPad,
like it did not understand this user experience.
So when I encountered Google+, and I realized I wasn't getting it relatively quickly,
On a pretty consistent basis, G+ has forced me to wonder if this environment actually
sucks or if I'm just dumb.
That hurts.
It hurts so bad.
So for that very egotistical reason, I just don't mess with Google+ plus unless I absolutely
have to.
I think what we really need to understand with all these Google Youtube changes is that
Google doesn't want Youtube to be "YouTube", Google wants Youtube to be Google's Video
Player.
To do that, you gotta move all the conversation from this existing, thriving network onto
*their* network.
Google+.
Like I said before, I'm pretty open to change.
The problem is when the changes don't necessarily add up - they don't make sense.
I have 3 different gmail accounts like many people in this world - you might have one
for your business, you might have one for your job, or you might have one for your personal
usage.
WHY I GOT SEVEN DIFFERENT G+ ACCOUNTS?
That's not -- what am I -- who are you???
what are they???
How are --
I also don't need Google to tell me which comment or commenter is more important.
You're all my special friends.
You know what They say!!
There's four sides to every story.
What you say, what I say, what Google search lets you see, and then the truth.
Tailored streams of information are nothing knew.
You should have known this was coming.
You can't do anything about this, so why complain.
Orwell's 1984.
Dystopia.
Remember Remember the 5th of November.
NSA.
Privacy.
The Interwebz.
My cousin Barack Obama.
You are now in the running to becoming america's next top model.
Since I already had a Google+ account, and I've adapted to the changes, and I've adapted
to the feels that Google makes me feel in general, I'm not really too much pressed.
The moral of the story is that Google is making it just a little bit harder for my Internet
cousins to talk to me and it makes me sad.
Just a lil bit forlorn.
So if you have any questions about G+, leave a comment if you can and I will pretend to
know what I'm talking about.
And remember!
Google knows that you don't want to use Google+ and they don't care!
Because the point is not to have you use Google+, the point is just get more information about
YOU.
Your thoughts, your wants, your Amazon purchases.
Google wants you.
Open and wounded.
For the taking.
And you just have to accept it.
Cuz I bet you aint finna go on AskJeeves.com tho!!!!!!