[MarcScott]

If Google is sensible then it'll exclude "us" from being early adopters.

In the early days of Google+ trying to find anyone on the newly formed social network that wasn't part of the tech community was impossible.

If we become the early adopters then all this will be good for is advice for setting up a VPS and debugging javascript. I doubt they're trying to create the world's largest IT support system.

[DaveWalk]

Spot on analogy with Google+. Wasn't it true for Wave as well? The top comment is comparing the service to a friendlier Stack Exchange / IRC...yours is a good counter argument.