> Everyone I know and want to keep up with IRL is still stuck on Facebook
FB is for IRL friends/family, G+ as long-form Twitter. It's Twitter for people who don't get 140 characters. I'd say the strategy is working, given the amount of G+ links I see. Personally I'm more interested in what my G+ links say than FB (because they're interests of mine, not just IRL'ers talking about their nail polish), although I check both every so often.
"Don't get 140 characters" . . . congratulations! That's glib and dismissive.
The G+ posts are basically blog posts that are in Google's walled garden. Not much unlike Twitter or Facebook. You have the power to say what you want. For now. As long as you use their systems. And don't expect to own your data or your own online presence.
Regardless of how you separate all the food on your own personal plate so that it never touches, the problem is the proprietary lunch trays. Not everyone likes those.
> "Don't get 140 characters" . . . congratulations! That's glib and dismissive.
Many people don't like the 140 character restriction and I've read many who don't get Twitter. For about two accounts I didn't either and only found it "working" on a third, partly due to the people I was interacting with. That doesn't diminish those who don't like or get it, it just means they don't. Life goes on. I personally prefer G+ for depth. For example, neither your nor my replies would fit into Twitter, so we'd be stuck with glib and dismissive.
FB is for IRL friends/family, G+ as long-form Twitter. It's Twitter for people who don't get 140 characters. I'd say the strategy is working, given the amount of G+ links I see. Personally I'm more interested in what my G+ links say than FB (because they're interests of mine, not just IRL'ers talking about their nail polish), although I check both every so often.