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Something I've been thinking about: at what point does the pain of maintenance of a service outweigh its usefulness?

Between Facebook's new privacy settings, Google+ Circles, etc, these services have become much more about protecting and curating who sees what I do rather than doing anything with them.

Twitter I get much more utility out of with much less maintenance.

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nonsense. on both Google+ and Facebook you can quite easily lump everyone into one group/circle and leave your default posting level set Public.

just because a service provides more options doesn't mean you have to use them if you don't want to.

edit: granted, twitter's culture is more open to following strangers than facebook. my experience on Google+ has been a nice blend of the two extremes, so far.

I don't think it nonsense. I think there is a threshold where the maintenance/anxiety from the provided options exceeds the value of the service. I think its a sweetspot for any service actually (not just Google+ and Facebook).

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