Could Google's New Social Network Actually Improve Our Social Lives?

My response to Good.is 'Could Google's New Social Network Actually Improve Our Social Lives?':

http://www.good.is/post/could-google-s-new-social-network-actually-improve-our-social-lives/

Great article. I am yet to get a Google+ invite... however I'm hearing lots of good things about it. I am also skeptical of it's long term success because the people that are important to me (family and close friends) are all over FB and are not early adopters or swayed by new trends in anyway. As much as I hate FB, my usage of it, is because my beloved network is all over it. FB pulled me in, because of this network, not for it's design, features, coolness or anything else. I view FB as a really crappy party that's full of thousands of people I know and hang out, rather than G+ being a brand new party which is so cool and feature packed and knocks the socks off everyone else... however, it's not got my family there... and my family have no-intention of leaving. At the end of the day, I'm going where the people are... not where it's 'better'.

My gran, my mum & my Dad and my brothers and wives and their kids, will stick with FB... and that means, sadly... so will I.

Mark

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