Google+ Is it the answer to Facebook?

[Alex]

The drawback to to that, though, is that nothing "pushes" that to the person or puts it in a place where it will persist beyond the normal flow of their stream (what's that prostate medicine that talks about weak stream, I assume spoofs are in progress).

So yeah, only they can see it, but there's nothing that says "Hey, this is intended specifically for you so pay attention!" Assuming they even have you in a circle they read regularly. I've got 50 people in circles at the moment but only 14 in the circle with a stream that I look at regularly.

But then, I don't think I have anybody in my circles that I couldn't email if I wanted to. And if someone isn't wiling to be emailed are they going to be willing to be direct messaged?