Cory

Once again you provide good clear concise information that is straightforward and to the point.

I speak here myself and use Club E for my MeetUps too.

Valeriu

@Clint, @Mark, I just checked my own Gmail contacts, Clint you are in my friends list, so I HAVE to be in yours, Mark, no where to be seen.

Google is swapping tons of code around, until about 2 months ago, when G launched Latitide, no one was getting friends in Gmail for like a month straight. Now it works flawlessly.

It still depends on the other end, both must be using Gmail. So, go use Gmail.

Lastly, GFC ain’t Digg, you can’t just make a ton of friends and then shout them to death with “Digg this” spam and get Google rankings and it ain’t never going to happen.

Lastly where are you adding friends, just adding every person in one of my widgets to get my subscribers?

That don’t work either, just look at the history on Googling Social, you can see who is just sitting there trying to plunder my friends list but it don’t work because they do not understand GFC like I do.

This ain’t Digg and Google ain’t Dodge City, just because you know how to use Facebook don’t mean you know anything about Google.

The social features are in Gmail, not in Outlook. Second does Outlook access Gmail contacts and update them to you Outlook contacts list.

If not, then if you go to your Gmail account, then you will probably see a fair number of email addresses you don’t really recognize.

Third, why the heck would you use Outlook, when Gmail is faster to use. Offline access? Who cares, I never get an email that I do not need the internet to deal with.

I am until today, a heavy Outlook user, now I am moving totally to Gmail, online.

I am moving out of Windows, I just added an Ubuntu partition to my Windows machine and am learning how and how much I can use Ubuntu immediately and easily.

I am only tied to Windows thru Camtasia studio that I use to produce my YouTube videos.

Unless you have many different emails and you need them all in one place, I would not use Outlook.

What I do is use my chris at keywebdata email address strictly businesss communications.

I use Gmail strictly for all social contacts, it divides the two and my social media assistant can do a lot of work there for me, freeing me up to do things like this.

@Clint, you have 100 friends sharing in Google Reader? That is the end goal here, lots of friends sharing your blog posts and shared items. Why be unhappy or question this?

The reason you are not getting friend email addresses is they are not using Gmail themselves. I have said this many times, it is a two way conversation, and Google is never going to send Friend requests to Gmail like Facebook does, it is a waste of time to deal with that crap.

They don’t want us friending every person we can in every GFC widget to get friends. We tried it, that don’t work.

What you want is real friends, (G wants this too) and we want them in Gchat, then we have a real connection and we can get real time responses.

I can produce more action that makes me money from my Gchat contacts than I can from my 6,0000 social friends.

Because like me, my social friends are very powerful, I target highly influential users. In chat you know me, you don’t get that from Outlook. Mostly, Outlook just brings me spam. LOL

Gmail is now so slick and fast there is no reason not to use it. I used to want to brand KeyWebData.com, now I brand Chris Lang and I am always number one for a search. Real people being real people, that is what Google wants, why not give it to them?

Trouble is, even though I’ve sent and had accepted many gfc friend requests, NONE show up in my gmail contacts (yes I’me signed in with the right account at the time).

Is it because I’m using my gmail account as a pop3 server and collect my email using Outlook?

Cheers,
Mark

I’ll keep looking for the answer man and let you know when I track it down.