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10 subtle features you should know about Google Plus

Is there a feature, subtle or otherwise, that you find particularly appealing about Google Plus?

The never ending stream of personal data you send to Google. That will
be left to the user to decide if it is positive or negative.

whether or not google+ does the kind of pruning of contacts that FB does.
I am assuming pruning contacts would go against how G+ works, but confirmation would be nice

The thing that really irritates me about Google is their inability to get the user's preferred language right.

For example, I am logged into gmail, with my language set to English, I do a Google search, and Google show me the results in Taglog (when I am in the Philippines) or whichever language is spoken where my IP address is registered. In fact, Tagalog is not even the language spoken by the majority of people in the Philippines.

When I signed up for Google+, I was in Manila. I could find no way to get to Google+ in English. I tried starting from gmail (logged in as English), google.com, google.co.uk, etc. Every time google+ was delivered in Tagalog because my IP address where my notebook was located was in Manila. Finally, I had to get a Tagalog language speaker to stand behind me and translate, until we reached the point where I could change the language to English.

*** To this day, when I view Google+, there is still Tagalog sprinkled around the page.***

For this reason, I stick to Facebook.

Similarly, I tend to go to Yahoo for news ... and increasingly for searches, because Yahoo respects my language choice.

I travel a lot and I know so many people who hate this thing with Google. It has been going on for years - and in the days when you could still email Google they basically told me they don't care.

As much as we grouse about Microsoft, they did great things for internationalizing languages used in software, etc.

Come on Google - stop alienating your users.

It's so frustrating on FB to post something and find a typo or want to make a minor change in the wording after you've already had 6 comments.

Ever type a long post and FB says, it's too long: do you want to post it as a note? F*** no I want to post it as my status!

I'm a Google+ newbie and haven't tried this, but it seems to me that post-publish editing could completely change the meaning of the comment thread. I could change what I said and then the comments that follow would be responding incorrectly to a different thought. I could say, "I hate brussels sprouts." Subsequent comments could address that sentiment. If I change "brussels sprouts" to "lima beans," it would look like everyone is talking about lima beans, when they were actually talking about brussels sprouts.

FB and ty