"I think everyone feels the need to share different things with different people--and the desire to be able to hear from certain circles without losing them in the overall stream."
Personally I'm interested in the real numbers behind this. Have people actually split up their social network into circles? To what degree? Are people actually using the feature the way it was intended? How many posts are public or effectively public? How do people who only know a few people on G+ (essentially everybody outside the tech scene) use the service and Circles.
To me, G+ feels like a better content sharing network rather than a social network. For example, you can't even privately message somebody.
Now that I think about it, I wish the analytics lead on the team would do an IAMA as well. :-)
To me, G+ feels like a better content sharing network rather than a social network. For example, you can't even privately message somebody.
There are two ways to send private messages: 1) The chat, which you have to enable for circles or individuals. 2) You can contact anybody with a private message by sharing a message just with that person. To find out if a message you received is private, you have to check the sharing details, though.
Personally I'm interested in the real numbers behind this. Have people actually split up their social network into circles? To what degree? Are people actually using the feature the way it was intended? How many posts are public or effectively public? How do people who only know a few people on G+ (essentially everybody outside the tech scene) use the service and Circles.
To me, G+ feels like a better content sharing network rather than a social network. For example, you can't even privately message somebody.
Now that I think about it, I wish the analytics lead on the team would do an IAMA as well. :-)