Google+

Yesterday I was given an invite to Google+.

I have a few thoughts:

First, it's very easy to use. I like the circle idea, but I don't know how much I really need them. I generally keep personal thing personal and professional thing professional.
Certainly there's overlap, but these circles of people seems like it's going to require a lot of upkeep.

For instance, you have the family sphere. Okay, great! Family.
We can update on how 'ol Great Aunt Merna is doing, but half my family isn't going to care, they don't know Aunt Merna. Do I have one sphere for in-laws and one for my side?
Great!
That's not too hard.

Now for people who want to share links but don't want to get in a tiff going with Uncle Fred before the reunion about supporting or not supporting a political candidate, social cause, etc. Do we then make left leaning and right leaning circles to appease?



How many layers before this becomes too annoying or are we just going to maintain the "if I don't want everyone to see it, I won't post it" type practices?


On anther point, I have two other people who also have Google+. It's kind of boring.
I also didn't use Picasa before.
Actually until checking to make sure I spelled Picasa correctly, I didn't know pictures uploaded to Blogger went on the site. That's really quite creepy.



All in all, I won't have much use for the site for a while. Everyone's on Facebook and people are pretty loyal.