Why Google+ & My Invitation Link

A lot of people have asked me why I have been praising Google+ and moving to it over Facebook and/or Twitter. Here's a quick list:

1. I have two Twitter accounts. A personal locked one and a public one. Google+ eliminates that need to keep two accounts as well as manage them. It also removes the 140 character limit of Twitter.
2. I find it easier to share articles and more complex conversations with people.
3. Circles! - Circles allow you to place people into circles based on how you know them. I have: Intimate Friends, Friends, Acquaintances, Zen, Following and Family. Google+ allows me to craft my update to the particular audience and my friends don't need to reciprocate my placing them in a circle to access my posts. For example, I am able to create a community of friends that I know from Zen practice and share among them items that are of little interest to others.
4. Followers - I can place interesting people into a circle for following. These are people that I follow their public posts but they don't necessarily have to follow me back.
5. It replaces Foursquare.
6. I can conceivably add students to Google+ and share items with them. This is something that I NEVER would have permitted under Facebook.. I simply have to create a circle for students in Google+ and it is possible.
7. Facebook is limited in the type/kind of conversation you can have and the settings are not intuitive.
8. G+ has VoIP as well as chats "Huddles" on your phone that are like group messaging/texting.
9. I use an iPhone and the app is pretty good. Still needs some work.

Really, my only complaint is getting people I am interested in to move over. I dropped Facebook completely for about a week and tried Google+ exclusively. Once you get it, you really love it.

It does require a Google account, but I don't think that will be a problem for most. I looked down the roster of my incoming students for the Fall and about 80 - 90% use gmail as their primary email already. Going through my address book it was similar. I have friends who are still on aol.com or some such. I'm not sure they'd make the transition.