Agreed. My problem (and it may just be mine) is that my 100 or so friends on Facebook (mostly IRL friends) are not that active on Facebook groups. They will update their status and post photos but will not share content on groups. I am part of a number of groups around my interests (tech, photography etc) but tends to be me and maybe one or two others that contribute content. Very little discussion occurs. I wonder if Google+ will change that with the ability to add in non friends around an interest (ala twitter) but without broadcast to all.
What I would like is the circles feature to encompass this, so that you would have the equivalent of Twitter wide spread for instance a circle on Node-JS, a music circle which I share with friends as previously mentioned and another wider circle of friends which is more like facebook, a more general taste circle. I think this makes a lot of sense, and I want these groups to be explicit, I don't particularly want any groups to be "We thought you might be interested in Penguins seeing as you are in the Linux group"
I agree... this may hurt/help Google group making. Either people will add non-contributors to a group and get bored with others' lack of contribution, and by extention Google circles. (To combat this, it'd be great if Google helped curate or edit circles, like with listservs. Non-content posters would be flagged for me and I could opt into auto-removing non-contributors or just being notified that they are diluting my circle.)
Or, it will result in better curated lists of people -- similar to twitter, where you really only want to follow someone (and up your following count) based on the quality of their content.
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Agreed. My problem (and it may just be mine) is that my 100 or so friends on Facebook (mostly IRL friends) are not that active on Facebook groups. They will update their status and post photos but will not share content on groups. I am part of a number of groups around my interests (tech, photography etc) but tends to be me and maybe one or two others that contribute content. Very little discussion occurs. I wonder if Google+ will change that with the ability to add in non friends around an interest (ala twitter) but without broadcast to all.
What I would like is the circles feature to encompass this, so that you would have the equivalent of Twitter wide spread for instance a circle on Node-JS, a music circle which I share with friends as previously mentioned and another wider circle of friends which is more like facebook, a more general taste circle. I think this makes a lot of sense, and I want these groups to be explicit, I don't particularly want any groups to be "We thought you might be interested in Penguins seeing as you are in the Linux group"
I agree... this may hurt/help Google group making. Either people will add non-contributors to a group and get bored with others' lack of contribution, and by extention Google circles. (To combat this, it'd be great if Google helped curate or edit circles, like with listservs. Non-content posters would be flagged for me and I could opt into auto-removing non-contributors or just being notified that they are diluting my circle.) Or, it will result in better curated lists of people -- similar to twitter, where you really only want to follow someone (and up your following count) based on the quality of their content.