Eric Frenkiel

With Google+ now competing for my attention on my phone and desktop, I’m starting to feel like I’m crammed into a phonebooth (remember those?) with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and now Google+.

Friends are updating Google+ but not Facebook, and of course I need to manage my professional network on LinkedIn, and I certainly use Twitter to blast out new blog posts, while simultaneously updating Facebook and LinkedIn. And now Google+. (Of course, I am not even acknowledging Foursquare and Quora).

Where does it end? Will someone please create a network to manage all these networks (no, please don’t, put down that Expo marker and back away from the whiteboard).

I suppose what I’m trying to say is that at some point, it’s all together too much.  I can only click on so many “Like”, “Share”, “Tweet”, and “1+” buttons. That, my friends, is indicative of a much larger problem.

Speaking of friends, I now have 1,004 on Facebook. On Google+? 14. Fourteen friends I actually talk to every other day and see every weekend. How refreshing in many ways.

You know what the #1 feature on Google+ is? 

Instant photo upload.  

All my friends will confirm that I’m positively the worst photo-sharer ever.  I have a 32 gb card that has more than 2,000 photos (and videos) across a 6 month time frame.  When the card is finally full, I will kick-off Photopalooza for 3 days of non-stop tagging, commenting, photo-albuming “fun.”

With Google+, I don’t have to do a thing to share photos.  And it feels glorious.