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comment by dublinben
dublinben  ·  4431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google+ users spend increasingly less time on site
I spend many minutes on plus every day on my phone. The android app is better than any mobile interface for Facebook or Twitter. I just use it to follow the interesting people I find online. I could care less if millions of normal people aren't clogging it up like facebook.

I don't need a replacement for facebook, because I hate facebook. Google+ does everything I want perfectly.





mk  ·  4431 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I do agree that it is a stellar platform for following personalities. It's like Twitter, but you don't often have to click away to see what someone is talking about.
dublinben  ·  4431 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It's also not horribly painful to use like twitter. The stream is a fantastic way to follow stories and conversations. I wish there was a reddit/hubski interface that worked the same way.
mk  ·  4430 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Do you mean with circles?
dublinben  ·  4430 days ago  ·  link  ·  
More or less. I think the stream is a good way of presenting stories, like this:

http://i.imgur.com/5ocCv.png

Clicking on an item brings up comments, and lets you add your own, like this:

http://i.imgur.com/mhAfy.png

It doesn't have the power of threaded comments, but neither do FB or twitter. It is, however, easy to use and pleasant looking.