SPOT. ON.
I've never set foot into Facebook. I signed up for MySpace back when it started getting popular, because everyone said I had to be a part of this amazing new thing that would change my life. Well, it didn't. I tend to be way more immediate. If I haven't seen you in 6 months, I'll probably forget to text you on your birthday. No offense, I've just got a lot going on, and I get distracted easily when I don't maintain my focus.
When I saw which acquaintances were on Google+, I signed up for it. You're absolutely right -- at least for now, it's mostly savvy users with interesting points of view. I like that I can divide my contacts into arbitrary groups and broadcast things of interest only to people I think might get some use out of it.
I expect that, eventually, it will be littered with the same trite minutiae that you see on Twitter and Facebook, but the ability to organize your circles goes a long way toward providing an architecture that helps to tune out the noise.
Also, to the author: Please don't start digging any graves yet. How long was Facebook around before people "got it"? The site's fundamental purpose even morphed over time. G+ is here now, and people will make of it what they will. If Google respects this and designs it to meet our changing needs and wants, it'll do fine. But people aren't *quite* fickle enough to pick up and move social networks every time a new one pops up.
