Well they did fuck up the interface in their attempt to make it entirely mobile-compatible, and us computer users took about half a year getting used to it... it had been way better and much functionality is gone or hidden because everything must be tap-tappable but then, computers are also gone from the minds of upcoming generations... and Google is to a large part Android now.

Still, to the initiated it's one of the most useful networks of them all, for many reasons. I wouldn't dream of giving it up for facebook, or this... but you have to know what you're doing. To send a private message, you simply create a post and share it with the person you want to share it with, and nobody else, or three or four of them. You can pretty much customize G+.