There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.OSCAR WILDE
Ninetyseven
May 30, 2017
|In Daily Post
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.OSCAR WILDE
Beautiful photo, which for some reason showed up twice, in succession, in my Google+ notification feed.
I’d be tempted to turn this one into an animated GIF by adding a rain filter. There’s a great free one over at Lunapic.com.
Thank you for your kind words Gary. It showed up twice on G+ because I shared it to the “Public” stream with comments disabled, as usual. This I did from here, on this site, using a plugin, also as usual. Then I logged into G+ and re-shared it from the “Public” stream to the Photography collection… and forgot to turn the comments off.
My purpose is two fold:
First, I know some people have unfollowed my collections, but follow my main profile and they miss my photo posts that I usually share into the Photography collection. Some of these people are (or at least used to be) my best engagers in the good ol’ days. I can understand their frustration with collections and thus their action. But posting to collections automatically precludes them from seeing the photo. Brilliant strategy, or move, or whatever you want to call it, by Google engineers and designers. But you knew that… I wanted to check if they, some or all, are still around, if they still check the feed &etc. and if they do, to share my post with them.
Second: I wanted to see if the public post would get any traction at all, or if, by strange luck, if it somehow did better than the collection posts. There is no doubt about the technical capabilities of Google’s engineers. But outside of that they are just a bunch of fools. They keep pushing a non-working architecture and assume we’ll get used to it. I have practically left G+ and focussed entirely on Twitter and Instagram. I just keep plugging there because it’s a stream and I’ll take whatever traffic I can get from it.
Does move me…….thanks!
Thank you Tamara! Very kind of you to say. 🙂