Why Google+ is the place for passions

Now before you criticize me for linking to a bunch of search results, let me point out another aspect of Google+ that people don't understand: Every stream is a search result.

Google+ is basically a social search engine that you can add things to directly. So a search stream based on passions is a primary and completely legitimate way to use Google+.

This is the activity around interests that Besbris was accurately describing. For anyone interested in anything, there's no better place to explore and connect around that interest than Google+.

There is also activity on Google+ that is really quite mind-blowing, but it's way outside the Twitter and Facebook wheelhouses. Here are a couple of examples.

There's a photographer on Google+ named Patrick Smith. Patrick's passion is landscape photography (scroll back to the top of this page to see an example). And his pictures are crowd-pleasers, showing dramatic scenes with the colors punched up in Photoshop, or whatever. Judge him if you will, but his posts have been viewed 50 billion times. I'll repeat that: Fifty. Billion. Times.