What does microblogging give you that forums didn't?
I am always amazed people liked g+ circles so much. I often found them rather clumsy and isolating. Maybe I just don&#x27;t get what people want out of these platforms?<p>I was always more of a forum type and also more reader than participant. Looking at circles specifically, I often saw patterns of &quot;Everyone tell me what you want to read about so I can put you in the right circle&quot; which meant you had to manually subscribe and unsubscribe by private message and could often see nothing at all if you didn&#x27;t want to contact that person. This is of course nice for privacy and getting to personally know people, but I found it really hindering to discussion and a having a usable archive of a community.<p>Of course, google+, like most modern social media, was also people-centric instead of topic centric, which always annoyed me, but many people seem to like? It still was a network where I read many cool things and had interesting discussion, but I felt like it was a watered down replacement of forums even back then.