So long and farewell to Facebook?

Like most people I've been quite heavily invested in Facebook for sometime, primarily for keeping in touch with friends and family who live away from home.

However more and more I am finding Facebook to be more of a chore than an easy to use tool. Issues of privacy, the ever increasing size of the add box, peoples bejewelled scores, invitations to play farmville, or attention seeking posts like "can't sleep" or "depressed", frequently mean the posts I am interested in get lost amongst the noise.

Now I know what you are going to say "just unfriend the people responsible for the digital flatulence" but to be honest I am too considerate and don't want to cause anyone any offence.

So I am left with a couple choices :

Stick with a service which irritates me from time to time.

Ditch Facebook entirely and just keep twitter.

Or find something to replace Facebook.

To Google+ or not to Google+

So considering that last point, I've been playing with Google+ for a few weeks now, and I can honestly say I love its clean and functional layout. Google+ is not without its flaws a lack of a native iPad app been one of them, but it has so many great functions and features that make it a worthy adversary for Facebook. I love the lack of pointless games and the fact that I can choose whether the whole world sees my post or just a select circle of friends. Obviously Google+ has many more features which have already been covered by far better bloggers than I so I won't cover old ground.

Suffice to say I think Google are very close to having what some would class as a Facebook killer, I tend to think of it more as a Facebook for grown ups.

So will I switch entirely or use yet another Social Networking tool.... watch this space.