| G+ asks you to decide who is going to see all your posts by default. It begins from an assumption that you want privacy, and lets you affirmatively remove it, rather than the other way around. You can go to your profile at any time and easily see what you're sharing with others by typing in the name of any person or circle, and see how you appear to them, so there's never any question about what you're sharing. Sharing on G+ is asynchronous, meaning that you can follow unilaterally like Twitter if you want to. Google makes its privacy policies much easier to find and read than Facebook, and works from the default position that you want your data to be private, making it up to you to share, rather than the other way around, which is what Facebook does. Perhaps most important of all is that Facebook has a history of being a bad actor, changing their policies without notice and always defaulting to exposing personal data. Google has had its stumbles in the past, but their history shows them to be a more trustworthy custodian of your data. They might not always adhere as well as they should to their motto of "don't be evil," but at least they have that starting point to go from. I believe the quote Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is best known for is "They trust me — dumb fucks." |