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?

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Because all the data can be hosted independently of the service in a "pod".

G+ has been a big serve of meh for me. I just don't see the point in it - which may say more about me than it.

Call me an idiot...

I know about five people who have ditched Facebook for G+, plus myself. It'll be interesting to see how friends react, will they straddle both sites, or will they drop friends? Bearing in mind some friends on Facebook I rarely see in the flesh.

I tend to only really interact (if that's the right word?) with actual real-world friends on FB. (i.e. arranging nights out, sharing photos, etc...)

Most other people I know are on twitter and it allows me to keep track of what everyone's doing.

I don't need G+ also as there is no gap to be filled by it.

Facebook for Google+™ allows you to see your Facebook stream inside Google+.
Simply Connect to Facebook, and get all the updates on your Google+ Facebook tab.

I know about five people who have ditched Facebook for G+, plus myself. It'll be interesting to see how friends react, will they straddle both sites, or will they drop friends? Bearing in mind some friends on Facebook I rarely see in the flesh.

[Google Engineer Calls Google+ a Pathetic Afterthought

Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it. The Golden Rule of platforms is that you Eat Your Own Dogfood. The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call. One of the team members marched in and told me about it when they launched, and I asked: "So is it the Stalker API?" She got all glum and said "Yeah." I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream. So I guess the joke was on me.
Microsoft has known about the Dogfood rule for at least twenty years. It's been part of their culture for a whole generation now. You don't eat People Food and give your developers Dog Food. Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes. Platforms are all about long-term thinking.
Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone.
Our Google+ team took a look at the aftermarket and said: "Gosh, it looks like we need some games. Let's go contract someone to, um, write some games for us." Do you begin to see how incredibly wrong that thinking is now? The problem is that we are trying to predict what people want and deliver it for them.
You can't do that. Not really. Not reliably. There have been precious few people in the world, over the entire history of computing, who have been able to do it reliably. Steve Jobs was one of them. We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.