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•@Alex Quinn or +Alex Quinn ➜ +Alex Quinn (press @ or + to link to a person in a post or comment)
• After you post, click the little dropdown arrow (▽) in the upper right of the post to disable comments or disable resharing (i.e., for things you don't want to spread beyond your specified audience).
• Press "k" or "j" to move up or down in the stream.
• Press Tab then Enter after writing a comment on a post to quickly submit it. (faster than clicking the Post Comment button every time).
Privacy: I'm impressed with how strongly Google+ pushes you to think about who you're sharing with. When sharing, you have to specify the audience. Minor hassle but better strategy overall. When making changes to settings regarding photos and contacts, the messages give far more detail than Facebook. Again, it's more complexity for the user, but it shows a deep level of seriousness about sharing.
In interviews, Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz both go out of their way to say they learned from Buzz and that with G+, they are making privacy a central focus, if not the central focus. In contrast, recent interviews with Mark Zuckerberg make me think they want to be more like Twitter. Maybe he wants to increase thefees they get for access to public streams, or maybe he just thinks Twitter was a better idea to start with. Personally, I like boundaries. It's natural to share things with close friends that you wouldn't want to share with co-workers, let alone potential future employers.
It's also nice that G+ lets you say more. :) Real life doesn't always fit into 140 characters (420 for Facebook).
By Alex Quinn, Computer Science graduate student, University of Washington.
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