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Not really, but I miss it.

Not that it ever had the popularity it needed to be really useful, but I did use it to reach out to my programmer friends. As a kind of minimal effort blog. The biggest advantage with G+, as I used it, was that I could post technical stuff (like I would on Twitter) without confusing my other friends (like I would on Facebook) and it would actually be read (unlike Twitter).

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I rarely use either G+ or Facebook, but that feature was indeed a big drawing factor when I originally tried out G+

Could you not do the same thing with Facebook now that it has "Audiences"? I have a "Gamer Friends" one where I could post about DOOM or Overwatch and not weird out "normal" people

Not that I post there as we use Telegram.. but in theory I could

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