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G+ is more about building an interest graph than FB, don't use it as a vanity/foodiate platform and it won't be a ghosttown. I'm mostly on it for link following and I'm getting super high quality science and tech links in my feed. the ghost-town characterization is way off base.

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Completely agree, only problem is that your interest feed relies on the people you subscribe to keep their posts related to the interest you associated them with.

But if the scientists in your NASA circle want to post vacation pictures, you can't filter that out. You can try and get yourself included into their "Space News Only" circle, which would solve the problem, but badgering people who don't know you to do something for you, even little like this, isn't an optimal solution.

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