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By the way, I just thought I'd put this here - even though it's about facebook and not Google+.
Maybe people knew this, but I didn't. The default setting is to receive "most" of your friends' updates. Nothing says how facebook determines which updates to send to your feed. But if you hover over a friend's name, a box appears with a "Subscribed to" button in the lower right. Click that for several options, including whether you want to receive "all" updates from that friend, "most" updates or only "important" updates. Damn, but I hate facebook. The default is "most." Have fun changing this for each of your friends that you want to receive all updates from. Sheesh.
In the next week or so, there's supposed to be big changes in the facebook layout. Google+ is driving some of this (such as facebook's even-more- confusing friends management, in response to Google+'s elegant simplicity in that area), and some is driven by Zuckerberg's bald greed.
Now, instead of or in addition to the famed Like button, you will have "Read," "Listened" and "Watched" - all to indicate that you've properly consumed the stuff your friends have linked-to, and that information will be sold to advertisers in order to target you more directly and pervasively. More insidious still is the "Want" button, where you can tell advertisers exactly what they should be pitching to you, because your wallet is open and salivating.
Nice.
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