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Good question. Facebook does though seem to have achieved the natural monopoly position if you're trying to organise "events" (like our steampunk festival). They finally Borged me last week.
It would be a grand irony if G+ was the thing that convinced me to join FB, by showing that everyone who runs a network is evil, so you might as well go with the established network.
It's more like having a pack of several such friends, and they all go with you to every party, whether that's the College of Surgeons May Ball, or to Torture Garden.
At this point I'm just waiting for Google+ to open a route for me to syndicate my LJ and news site teasers to it. That, or some other form of auto-posting, is all I can see it getting from me.
I haven't used Google plus for ages as most of my friends have stopped using it too, and I don't see the point in using a social network site where pseudos are not allowed.
Facebook is manageable, in many ways. I don't use the applications, and I 'hide' people's game notifications (for instance, "(name) found a pink cow on Farmville"), which makes the whole thing less irritating. And users can filter their posts now, and only post to certain people on their friends list, which hasn't always been the case.
If you run facebook sandboxed it's not too bad. There are a number of apps out there that utilize the mobile API where you can avoid giving it access to your browser/cookies that seem to be set on every. single. website. The most unnerving thing about running it unsandboxed is when you're looking a some news site and it lists your friends that like the story you happen to be reading.
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LinkedIn for connecting professionally, Twitter for ADH-lookoverthere!, Facebook for actual socializing, LiveJournal for long-form writing.
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Facebook is manageable, in many ways. I don't use the applications, and I 'hide' people's game notifications (for instance, "(name) found a pink cow on Farmville"), which makes the whole thing less irritating. And users can filter their posts now, and only post to certain people on their friends list, which hasn't always been the case.
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