[PaulHoule]

I've been a social media programmer since 2001 and personally I think Google+ needs a paper book to explain how to use it.

I always have people trying to get me to join them in hangouts and sometimes it works, but often it takes me 10 or 15 minutes to get the invitation and actually get into the hangout.

The funniest time was when it wanted me to update the software on my mac and it gave me step-by-step instructions to open a terminal window and use the command line to do the update.

I give Google credit for developing a sharing model that's different from the Facebook and Twitter model, so that Google+ isn't just an imitation of it's competitors. On the other hand, I dont know if I like sender-controlled sharing... There are so many people that want to spam me with this or spam me with that, and I'm not just talking about Nigerian spammers, I'm talking about close friends, family members, C-level people at places I work with and so forth. I'd rather see an intelligent social media platform that helps me pick out what I want and what I need to know; Facebook comes closer to that.

[lotharbot]

I'd love to see good, simple two-way sharing control. I should be able to decide who a post is visible to, and they should be able to decide what proportion/type of my posts they want to see. G+ is better at the former while FB is better at the latter; neither do the whole package very well.