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Re:Will Google+ Ever Get A Full Read/Write API? by dannyr on Sunday December 30, 2012 @09:35PM (#4988093)
Remember what happened with Google Buzz? It's pretty much a mirror of a user's Twitter/Facebook stream.

My Google+ network doesn't have much activity relative to Twitter/FB but I still visit it once a day because the content is mostly unique, not the same ones I see on my Facebook and Twitter streams.

Re:Will Google+ Ever Get A Full Read/Write API? by maxwell on Monday December 31, 2012 @11:58AM (#4989841)
Good points. I visit more or less daily too; for me it's more about the quality of the content than the uniqueness, since there's little overlap between who I follow on each. I only visit Facebook maybe once a week and Twitter once a month or so.

For me, G+ is where I post things I find interesting, usually links and thoughts to a relatively limited audience of real-life friends and acquaintances, and sometimes tech-related thoughts to my Hackers circle.

At this point I only use FB for a) chatting with people whose phone number / email address I don't have, and b) to keep in touch with and get updates from more distant family/friends (e.g. "that waitress I worked with a few years ago got engaged-- best wishes!", "it's my buddy's college roommate's birthday-- let's go get a beer in Portland sometime this summer!")

And I only use Twitter to read jokes from wannabe comedians and publicly bitch about corporations...