Well, that's kind of exactly my point. Facebook does the "things happening in my friends' lives that are largely inane but relevant to me" thing far better than some give it credit for (going to great lengths to determine relevance based on real actions you take). Twitter does the "I want a mind dump of the people I admire from afar with no filters" thing much better.
If Circles were the other way around -- a way to organize and categorize your thoughts for better consumption of other people -- I think that would have been better, and more along the lines of what you're talking about. If it had done it somewhat automatically that might have been even better.
But one thing that always kept me unhappy with G+ was that managing my circles felt like painful busywork better left to a computer, and it was only for my own benefit. It feels like work to control who gets to see what, and it's amortized on the wrong end, so I never did it. I don't know that anyone really does.
At any rate, no one's arguing people use facebook because of the people they don't want to hear from. That would be ludicrous.
If Circles were the other way around -- a way to organize and categorize your thoughts for better consumption of other people -- I think that would have been better, and more along the lines of what you're talking about. If it had done it somewhat automatically that might have been even better.
But one thing that always kept me unhappy with G+ was that managing my circles felt like painful busywork better left to a computer, and it was only for my own benefit. It feels like work to control who gets to see what, and it's amortized on the wrong end, so I never did it. I don't know that anyone really does.
At any rate, no one's arguing people use facebook because of the people they don't want to hear from. That would be ludicrous.