Regarding Google+ a friend wrote:

I’m considering using G+ as the social network for my professional life and Facebook as the social network for my family life. Any views on how well that will work?

I have strong opinions on this / upon the proposition that there are separable home and work lives, but rather than rant I’ll just raise three points:

1. If you ever really wanted to do this, why haven’t you done it already using LinkedIn?
2. What happens to people who stand with a leg in both camps? Are you really going to make them visit two places to keep in sync with you? Are you going to share bilateral content in both places?
3. Best of luck “unfriending” mere colleagues from Facebook.

All of this is prettymuch out of The Mine! Project manifesto – doubly ironic since the arguments for “Google Circles” really really really sound like the Mine!s development pitch from 2008-ish.

I understand the desire, but generally I do what I can to keep my online lives in sync and to surf atop the resulting wave of communication; my tweets feed my linkedin and facebook updates, and are aggregated on my blog – but not in the main blog due to complaints – so I will be instituting a Tweet-to-G+update gateway as soon as I can work out how.

Anyone who will be hiring me should be competent enough to Google me and thus find out all about me regardless of what my CV says, so I reject the notion of separating my two lives – but if I want to share photos with a limited subset of friends, I’ll use whatever tool I find most suited for sharing photos, rather than whatever tool is my personal social nexus / personal work nexus.