Staying with Google Plus (G+ post)

If this thing remains clean, I'm definitely staying here. It's Facebook without the crap. As soon as they start adding games, if I have no ability to ignore them, it'll be on the downhill slope.
In short, if this remains actual social media rather than a platform to get people to pay to waste their time, I'll be very happy with it.
The best thing about it is that it's pretty clear who's going to see posts. That's one thing I hate about FB-there's absolutely no way to really control who will see a post, even though it seems like there is.
Also I'll be interested to see if posts are held forever - it's common for me to refer back to things that I posted on LJ years ago. Not possible at all on FB AFAIK.
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G+ sparks (G+ post)

If anyone finds an electronics or technology hobby spark here, let me know what it is. Though the "sparks" seem to be just news feeds. I'd like to have something like an idea sharing and project showoff area. The existing stuff is all commercial.
What happened to the cursor? There was definitely a text cursor here earlier. They must be blowing out the pipes again.
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