Or can I declare it dead in the water?

I'm active.

There's about a bazillion photographers on there. They seem every so keen.

I have a Google+ thingy.
I think what I don't like is that it lacks simplicity and intuitiveness.
Just feels (although I'm sure I'm wrong) like it's almost finished - as if the final thought processes aren't quite finished.

I shall wait and see. I've not logged into Twitter in a while either, actually.

Kind of. For me, though, it’s just another place to check along with Twitter, FaceBook etc.. Do we really need that many social sites?

I've ditched Facebook for G+ and am coaxing as many people across as I can.
I only know of one other person who has done the same. I also know many other people who cross-post, and post varying material on both Fb and G+.


While I'll agree with you, I think it has a good deal more simplicity and intuitiveness than Facebook.

It really just needs people to come across. The only two things it's missing that Facebook have is a whole host of crappy games (but it's getting there), and events.

I'm very active, prefer it to bookface.

I simply have a default setting for my posts, I only put statuses up that I would be happy for an employer, parents or children to read - so the whole circles thing just gets in the way for me. It also offers nothing that Facebook doesn't in my view, how could it when Facebook already offers photos, text, IM, videos and (if you like that sort of thing) Farmville.

i have one, but dont post because i have about 5 friends on there right now. it was pretty much a knee-jerk reaction of mine to Facebook screwing up the update feed. who really cares about "top news" anyway?

I'm not "active" but I pop in fairly regularly, if only to read what's going on... much like Facebook.

Umm, no.

Facebook is bad enough, but it's too late for me on that front. Anyone trusting Google with their personal data would appear to be not nearly as concerned about it, as I am about mine (IMHO).

Name and email address. Even a made-up name if you want, though it has to look like a name. That's all.

I like circles, though I've got so many overlaps between the ones I initially set up they're not actually much use at the moment. The fact I can post to one particular circle, specific people, or a mixture if I want makes it a lot easier than the scatter-gun approach of F*c*book and even Twitter.

Once people "get" the circles concept - nicked from Diaspora, mind - then the whole G+ thing kind of makes more sense.

If you don't want Google to have it, don't put it on there...
I trust Google as much as I trust Facebook as much as I trust anyone else on the Internet to be honest!

We've all given certain info to Sas and he can see the raw data if he wanted to (ok, passwords are encrypted), how many of us have put in spurious information and made a separate email account just for this forum? Very few I'd have thought.

I have a G+ account.

I don't think I have checked it since I created it.

Everyone I know is on FB or Twitter so moving to G+ means losing all my connections.

To me it is a non-starter.

I don't.

The people I know are on Facebook, a couple are on Twitter and that's it. I doubt many of them have heard of Google +

Call me an idiot, but I trust Sas more than I trust any multinational corporation. Especially those who's express purpose is to make a living from people's casual relationship with their personal data.

Both Google and Facebook (amongst others) are an intelligence agency's/stalker's paradise. Call me Bratty, but that's just how it is. I already use a separate browser solely for Facebook because of the completely bastardly way they data mine. However, the problem is if I were to remember my anti-surveillance, privacy-craving, civil liberty-loving tendencies every time I went onto the site, I'd never post ANYTHING. And what's the point of being on a social site, if you're not going to share. The things I share should be for the people I want to see them and ONLY THEM. How hard is that?

Perhaps that's where Diaspora comes in.... Or perhaps everybody else is cool with it and Minority Report is less than a decade away (minus precogs). I'm hardly an expert.