[tejaswiy]

Wow, really? Google+ is an incredibly well designed tool, done by people actually working in psychology, sociology etc. rather than Facebook's geek centric culture of push updates now, worry about consequences later. If anything, what Facebook has been doing was to progressively push people trade off privacy for convinience and while they whine and complain about it for a while, they get used to it.

I'm not saying plus will win the social wars because Facebook has a lot of people because it built up a lot of momentum. But if it looses it won't be because people found it too nerdy / geeky or whatever. It just means Facebook had a huge advantage and they didn't let it slip.

[aloneinkyoto]

The macro difference in philosophy between Facebook and Google+ is that Google+ encourages social silos and obscurity (typical characteristics of geek/hacker culture, inherited from American liberalism and Californian utopism), while Facebook on the other hand encourages emphasis on context and sharing (in the two way interactive sense, not the one way broadcasting sense that for example Twitter promotes).

[mindstab]

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/08/why-im-n...

Except for the massive issues surrounding name use and the triviality in which it can be used to grief other people and not just on Google+ but their entire google account.