[btilly]

No they are not sharing wrong, the system is broken.

Google+ offers many ways for me to target content to a group of people that I personally know, and only one, "Public", to distribute content to anyone who might be interested.

Unfortunately there are at least 3 common use cases that need to be considered:

1. I target a message to people I think are interested. (Google+ does this well.)

2. I broadcast a message to people who may be interested. (Google+ sucks at this.)

3. A group of people forms for some purpose (work, game, whatever), and needs to be able to communicate within that group. (Google+ has no support at all for this, and the result is that I was forced to go to Facebook to communicate with people I was playing a Google+ game with.)

There is a real need for all three modes, and I don't know of anyone who does all three well.

[toyg]

I agree that point 3 is still a very big omission. They must be trying hard to merge this "Group" feature into their Circles metaphor, and failing for some reason or other. I personally can't see how hard it could be to add special Circles which are shared by multiple people but managed by only a specific few, but I don't know anyone at Google working on G+.

[kin]

My post implied that the system is broken, so I do agree with you.

As cumbersome as it is, the solution to 3 would be to have everyone in a circle create the exact same circle.