D'oh!

[andrewducker]

I've just realised what Google+ does that Facebook doesn't:

Facebook doesn't allow your status updates to be public.

steer was asking how the circles system in G+ was different to Facebook's friends list system. And the difference is that it's more like LJ's friends lists than Facebook's. Which is to say that, like Twitter, you can 'follow' anyone, even if they don't want to be followed. And like LJ you can post to a particular circle, a mixture of different circles, all of your circles (the equivalent of friends-only) or make a post public.

And that means that a G+ identity can be used as a public identity as well as for chatting to your friends. And this is something I've not seen on any other social network since LJ came along.

Now, if it only had threaded comments, I'd be happy!

Comments

[matgb]

With G+, I've turned off email notfications, the built in notifier, which also displays at the top of my Gmail, is so much better and easier to use, only flaw is it doesn't seem to want me to have multiple tabs opened from it, but beyond that it's good.

And I obsess over notifications from everywhere else and turn everything on.

[andrewducker]

Not being able to get to it except via my phone when I'm at work, I like email notifications :->

[matgb]

I suspect if I knew I was going to be away from my home machine for a bit, or working soemwhere where certain sites were blocked, I'd turn them back on, but currently I'm mostly at home and mostly on the laptop.

At work I'm busy and turn off the phone completely, as you'd expect, but I do sometimes do stuff during party meetings and similar.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that might work better. Thanks for the tip.