{"id":42770,"date":"2011-07-25T01:08:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13149"},"modified":"2011-07-25T01:08:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:08:51","slug":"1-month-into-the-new-social-network-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/25\/1-month-into-the-new-social-network-order\/","title":{"rendered":"~1 month into the new social network order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am only being added to Google+ &#8220;circles&#8221; at a clip of half a dozen per day. This is off the peak of nearly 20 or so per day a little over a week ago. I&#8217;m now at nearly 500 people in my Google circles, though only 5 were individuals whom I added proactively. I honestly have no idea who 2\/3 of these people are, though it seems that most of them know me through my blogs. About ~75 people I know rather well, though fewer than 50 are people who I&#8217;ve met in real life (many of these only once or twice). In contrast on Facebook there are hundreds of people I&#8217;ve met and known and know in real life. Very few of my college or high school friends have &#8220;added me&#8221; to their circles. In contrast, the people who I am socially engaged with currently have added me. It&#8217;s like Google+ is a vast and shallow circle extending outward into my present social space, both explicit (people I know) and implicit (those who know me through my web presence). In contrast Facebook has more historical depth. Though it&#8217;s been around a lot longer too, so the comparison isn&#8217;t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am only being added to Google+ &#8220;circles&#8221; at a clip of half a dozen per day. This is off the peak of nearly 20 or so per day a little over a week ago. I&#8217;m now at nearly 500 people in my Google circles, though only 5 were individuals &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,1569,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-google","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42788,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42770\/revisions\/42788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}