Why You Shouldn't Write Off Google+ Just Yet

Posted by timothy on Friday July 20, 2012 @11:08AM from the well-armed-tortoise-gunning-for-hare dept.

TheNextCorner writes "Cmdr Taco writes for The Washington Post on why you shouldn't write off Google+ just yet: "Google+ is technically better than its rivals in a number of key ways. The user interface is comfortable and friendly. It's easy to maintain circles of contacts, and to segregate what you share with each group. Discussions of small-to-medium sizes are manageable and readable — even in real time. Facebook wins when it comes to the open graph and app ecosystem, but a lot of people don't care about that stuff.""

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Re:Google What? by kllrnohj · 2012-07-20 15:05 · Score: 1, Flamebait

The mobile phone number is used for security to allow you to recover your account if you are one of the (many) idiots that picks a guessable password, re-uses passwords, or completely forgets their password.