Google+ Is it the answer to Facebook?

[Alex]

Oh, that's fine. I just didn't consider that a "Twitter" thing so when people were saying it combined Facebook and Twitter I wasn't getting it.

But then I'm not getting what is considered remarkably different from Facebook either. I can't do anything with circles (except put people in them without approval) that I wasn't already doing on Facebook (anybody I even faintly knew who asked to be my friend got put into a list that never sees anything) and I never view my default News Feed, but a more limited list. Admittedly the interface for Circles is much simpler than the interface for Lists.

I do much prefer G+ over Facebook, but I'm not seeing anything about it that particularly moves the needle on anything. Almost everything that I like has to do with the fact that not everybody in the world is on it and there isn't the app clutter. Both of which will end if the platform is at all successful.