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You personally don't find the quality of content on G+. I personally do. Or at least, it's rewarding enough to make it ANOTHER site that I visit. GMail, Face

You personally don't find the quality of content on G+. I personally do. Or at least, it's rewarding enough to make it ANOTHER site that I visit. GMail, Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News, CNN, G+. I don't think G+ is going to replace GMail, Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News, or CNN for me. But I don't expect ANY of those sites, to replace any of the others. So it just boggles my mind when people - on Reddit or Hacker News - comment that G+ didn't replace Facebook, so therefore it is not valuable. I think I've put a bit more effort into finding interesting people, Pages, Communities, and #topics than you have, and I've been rewarded for my efforts. Google+ doesn't have a Front Page like Reddit and HN do, that's true. But it wasn't hard to get started finding stuff I care about.

scholia 13y ago
Fair enough, but the whole idea of following people to find content just makes it harder to find content on G+. On Reddit, you pick the topics that interest you and the best content (in theory at least) gets upvoted. Both Twitter and Reddit (and HN) pack a ton of info into small spaces so it's very quick to scroll through and pick up new stuff, which is a major problem with G+. The same info may be on G+ but, in my experience, it's a lot harder to find. (And if do I find it, it's already been tweeted to death.) Incidentally, it wasn't me who thought G+ should replace other services! I do think it started as an attempt to replace Facebook, but as far as I can see, it isn't a good substitute for anything I already use. Worse, it doesn't have any unique attractions (unless you want Hangouts, which I don't).
- VikingCoder 13y ago
  You don't need to follow people to find content - you can follow Pages, Communities, and #topics. That makes it very similar to sub-Reddits. I can scroll through my stream pretty quickly. j/k keys work great. Reddit isn't a good substitute for anything I already use. It augments them. Google+ is the same, it augments the things I already use. A unique attraction for me is that when I +1 something, and later Google Search, I can find my own +1'd things very, very quickly. That's a completely unique feature. Try to find anything you ever saw on Facebook or Reddit, for comparison.
  - scholia 13y ago
    I've not found any Pages or Communities that were worth the effort. And however fast you page, you still end up viewing close to one item per page, which is ridiculous. I want to see at least 10, preferably 20 or more. (Worse, G+'s endless pages mean you never get very far down the stream even if you try.)

scholia 13y ago

Fair enough, but the whole idea of following people to find content just makes it harder to find content on G+. On Reddit, you pick the topics that interest you and the best content (in theory at least) gets upvoted. Both Twitter and Reddit (and HN) pack a ton of info into small spaces so it's very quick to scroll through and pick up new stuff, which is a major problem with G+. The same info may be on G+ but, in my experience, it's a lot harder to find. (And if do I find it, it's already been tweeted to death.) Incidentally, it wasn't me who thought G+ should replace other services! I do think it started as an attempt to replace Facebook, but as far as I can see, it isn't a good substitute for anything I already use. Worse, it doesn't have any unique attractions (unless you want Hangouts, which I don't).

VikingCoder 13y ago
You don't need to follow people to find content - you can follow Pages, Communities, and #topics. That makes it very similar to sub-Reddits. I can scroll through my stream pretty quickly. j/k keys work great. Reddit isn't a good substitute for anything I already use. It augments them. Google+ is the same, it augments the things I already use. A unique attraction for me is that when I +1 something, and later Google Search, I can find my own +1'd things very, very quickly. That's a completely unique feature. Try to find anything you ever saw on Facebook or Reddit, for comparison.
- scholia 13y ago
  I've not found any Pages or Communities that were worth the effort. And however fast you page, you still end up viewing close to one item per page, which is ridiculous. I want to see at least 10, preferably 20 or more. (Worse, G+'s endless pages mean you never get very far down the stream even if you try.)