1. You think it has better privacy controls This is number one, hands down, the biggest reason its a problem waiting to happen. The pure enthusiasm for a new product and your belief that you are “safer” will lead to you to share more believing that you have better control. 2. It’s still in Beta. Beta means beta, which means there are bugs that haven’t been worked out. It also means that this isn’t the finished product, things could change. 3. The follow vs friend vs circle confusion. Anyone can “follow” you by adding you to a circle even if you don’t reciprocate. This is weird hybrid of Twitter & Facebook. We already know people don’t understand complicated privacy settings. Twitter: your account is either public or private and you know which one it is. Yes it’s possible on Twitter to repost a tweet from a private account. Facebook: you must request a reciprocal agreement of friendship. If I deny that request you can’t follow me.The default settings for posts and status updates is “friends only”. So let’s say I intend to post my “party friends” but inadvertently post to all. Eek! Yep that’s bad, but it still only goes to the people I’ve allowed
