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I thought people had accepted that Google+ isn't a Facebook clone, and more importantly, understood what Google+ actually is, or is capable of, but no, clearly not.

I hate, HATE having conversations on Twitter. It was fine at once, but to see a stream I already envelope being flooded by back and forth conversation that is so difficult to craft and wordsmith with the character limit, pains me greatly. 

- Me, two months ago

I wasted the afternoon in an asinine discussion, trying to convey social and interest graphs amidst workshops and meetings, and realised halfway through that I shouldn't have bothered in the first place.

Facebook is for your friends, Twitter is for your interests

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It's been a week since my initial thoughts on Google+, and my uses for it have changed rather heavily!

The core 6 or 7 peeps I converse with on Wave everyday, yeh, we're still using Wave for that. We gave it a go, and apart from us having perfected how we use Google Wave and feeling way too comfortable with it, the asymmetry of Circles as they currently stand, didn't sit well with us. Ok, me anyway. Stand, sit, sheesh, I need to learn how to write...

I noticed it a day in. I just explained it terribly. Today's TechCrunch post crystallised things.

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via @googlerealtime

That's rather lame, and no wonder I haven't been seeing realtime results tonight. And really, they needed to disable the whole thing to test out integration with Google+? 

Considering how pathetic the Twitter search is, Google Realtime, and its timeline view have saved me many a time in trying to find old tweets, and it's been fantastic in trying to determine whether issues I currently have with a service or website are shared by others across the web, the most recent example being Tumblr's genius idea to remove the importing of RSS feeds >.<

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I'm probably the one person you know [or don't know] that doesn't use Facebook. I never saw a need to use it, and coupled with their terrible stance on privacy and general doucheness by Zuckerberg, wouldn't be caught dead using it. Then Twitter came along and created—shortly filling thereafter—a need to consume a constant stream of technology, movie, and cat-related information, amongst other things, and the ability to share all this easily.

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