I would love to switch from Facebook to something like this. However, I would probably be my only acquaintance on this new network :(
I already lost a ton of credibility when I convinced many of my friends and family to try Google+.
I already lost a ton of credibility when I convinced many of my friends and family to try Google+.
For example, most of my family don't use any social networks, but they all use email. So I created a Circle with everyone's emails inside, and when I share a story, they get a beautiful email with my photo inside. They can reply to the email directly to comment on the story, and all keep in touch. We've made email a first class citizen.
The irony for me is that the most private thing I can do is also the most public: send a plain old email to a person with a link that anybody can use. The public-ness of the link in the email is what makes the act of sharing private. If the link was not public I would need to grant the recipient access to some piece of my social network for them to see the photos. Which in turn would probably expose a lot of other information about me to them, and thus would be a violation of my privacy. I'm not sure what one would call this idea of "private public" sharing but it's a concept I feel is missing from nearly all current social networks.