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by patrickod 5446 days ago
As much as I like the idea of only having to post something in one place to have it shared with people I think part of the reason I really like Google+ is because all of the content that is being shared there is original. Buzz was all about integrating your other feeds. G+ is doing very well by making people post original items.
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The only original content I've seen posted on G+ so far is meta stuff about G+.
Agreed. Anybody posting their Twitter stream of consciousness to G+ is going to get unfollowed. When I want that, I read Twitter.

Btw, in Buzz, you can unsub from a person's Twitter in-stream. RHS dropdown has "mute Twitter posts from X".

Anybody posting their Twitter stream of consciousness to G+ is going to get unfollowed.

I routinely post anything I want to be publicly visible to Twitter. It's then forwarded to Facebook, LinkedIn and (soon) G+. If I want something visible only to my friends, I post it to FB (I keep the friend list there tidy) - hopefully I'll be able to forward those to my "Friends" and "Family" circles on G+.

I don't want to maintain yet another stream whenever there's a new social network thing going on. OTOH, I don't post my "stream of consciousness" to Tw, I try to use it as a broadcast medium. I am annoyed by "today I had X for lunch" type posts, be they on Tw, FB or G+.

I have a few friends who are linked to me on FB, Buzz, Twitter and LinkedIn. Issue is that I get the same messages in every medium and most of the time, they're not worth seeing 4 times :) I figure if someone wants my Twitter posts they'll follow me on Twitter.
You are able to post from "Spark" as well, which is kind of a neat way to share news or whatever.