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Google+ Hangouts, now serving Furry fandom

While Facebook and Twitter do their darndest to reach the masses, Google+ is tapping into the heretofore unrealized market — lazy Furries.

Or so it would seem.

Roleplaying members of the fandom of fictional anthropomorphic animal characters who can’t be bothered to pop on a school mascot-style moose head or even a bunny ear headbandnow have more options via Google+ Hangouts. The social network nobody cares about recently rolled out a new set of facial effects for Google+ Hangouts — the group video chat which allows up to 10 participants — a virtual kitty face and doggie ears and muzzle among them.  Forget cosplay conventions! You don’t even need to leave the house.

Read the rest at MSNBC: Now Serving The Furry Fandom

 

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Markos Sinister is a Furry Web Developer. His Fursona is a Dark Gray Were Wolf with blue eyes, dark browish/black hair with a white pentacle in his chest fur. He is most often seen wearing Victorian style clothing such as a waistcoat, cravat, and frock coat often with "Steampunk" adventuring gadgets.

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Markos March 5, 2012 Furry on the Web, Media Coverage 4 Comments 1,131 views

4 comments on “Google+ Hangouts, now serving Furry fandom”

  1. Stuart Otterson on said:

    I feel rather disappointed that instead of just reporting the news, the author has to say things like “The social network nobody cares about”, which whilst I know what truth he is getting at, feels rather inappropriate.

    At the very least if the author wanted to make light of the fact that G+ hasn’t set the world alight it could have set it in another way like “The social network which has been struggling to gain the same positive momentum that Facebook had enjoyed in its relative startup stage…”.

    I feel that sentence isn’t being objective either, at least it’s less blatant and has greater formality to it. I’m not saying that FNN should be professional news organisation, but past articles I’ve read have not been worded like this.

    • Markos on said:

      This was written by a writer at MSNBC.  We simply posted an excerpt and a link to the full article.  

      I do think it was a bit slanted in the way it talks of Google+ – but do remember where the MS in MSNBC comes from – MSNBC is a partnership between Microsoft and Comcast/NBC Universal.

  2. Albino From About on said:

    If google opens this mask tool to the public imagine the possibilities artists could create. Not to mention depending on the power of the software at some point 3d could even be a possibility. Only problem is I doubt Google wants to host that sort of data for really complex masks.