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« Last post by JavaJones on July 01, 2011, 06:48 PM »
Ah I see what you mean Mark, interesting and I think somewhat accurate point. However when you say the similarities with FB are skin-deep I think it's the other way around; the similarity with Wave is skin-deep in that it has that privacy and collaboration capability, but fundamentally as a tool it operates completely differently from Wave. It has no collaborative document development component whatsoever, no history/wiki aspect, no simultaneous anything. What it does have looks a lot like Facebook, that's all there is to it.
That being said as I mentioned the point about it having the ability to be more private and collaborative is important. What I want to point out though is that the beauty of it for me is G+ can be used almost exactly like FB if a user desires (aside apps, games, etc. at this point, but I'm sure that will come). In other words you can set it up to share everything with the world or all your friends automatically. For those people that want to "over-expose and basically shout and show in public", G+ can still do that. In fact it can do it better than FB because of the point Deo mentioned where you can "follow" someone without having to have their consent (Twitter-like). At the same time the beauty of it is you aren't limited to FB's confusing and dysfunctional security and group systems. The Circles system seems to work brilliantly, is very intuitive (for me at least), and allows you as much or as little control as you want *on demand*. So you can choose on a per-post basis to share with whomever you want, but you can also setup reasonable defaults to avoid making posting too much of a hassle (e.g. if it required you to manually fill out who to share with each time).
I continue to be impressed and every additional person I know that joins makes it an even better experience. I want to do more Hangouts! So far the only successful one was the test I mentioned in my original review (this is due to lack of participants rather than any issue with the Hangout functionality btw).
- Oshyan
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