So this is easily one of the best discussions I have yet seen about the need for the community to be more involved in the SUL (Yes it's another Suggested User list post) but this one is different and you should take the time to read it with an open mind. I have my opinions on good and bad but really they are not important if you are making friends here as you do in real life.  Making friends is not easy, it takes work, G+ is not Twitter or Facebook where most relationships are shallow, drones or simply spammers. I make friends here with now over a year of investment of time and effort, that is more than I spend on non online "real" friends…. Many of the people I follow I know or at least feel like I know offline….and if I met them for the first time at a Photowalk etc I think our conversations would just continue from where we left off online.. There is nothing more powerful than a social platform where you can easily share ideas and get real feedback, many overlook that praise thou nice is not as important to growing in life […]