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by darklajid 5001 days ago
Don't hit me.

I visit G+ if

- some post here links to it (seriously, I have more or less no other source that points to that stuff, and_very_ rarely a search hit leads that way)

- I check, in vain usually, on the progress of a CM port for my LG crapphone, because the amazing guy behind most LG ports uses that site. I have a bookmark for his.. uhm.. posts? timeline? feed?

People in my non technical and environment don't know what G+ is. People in my geek community left it because it's worse than Facebook in trying to build 'identities'. I'm always surprised to see real world usage and will continue to be a skeptical observer. That huge potential might certainly exist, but I fail to see it.

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I also follow Ricardo Cerqueira... and Jeff Dean, Brad Fitzpatrick and Linus Torvalds. It's like a small private space.
I sometimes do. But I don't have an account or need one for that.
Do you use Google+ at an enterprise?

If not, you seem to have missed the point of this article.

I don't, but nor do I use GMail or Hangouts at an enterprise (and this is a place that uses Yammer extensively). I would be surprised if many of the kind of enterprises the author is thinking of did, so I don't think the potential the author sees is really there.