It's not a substitute to real contact, it's a supplement. You can also use it to organize real gatherings or as happened in Egypt even revolutions. In any case I'm hoping google+ will be to social networking what gmail was to web mail services. When gmail entered the market even users of other services benefited as they struggled to keep up with the googs features.
Google will dominate the world in 2020 :P
Also about Facebook, I have it, but the only reason I ever log on is to answer messages which I never get anyhow, so I pretty much never log in, never update my status and sometimes I wonder why I even have a facebook..
[Edited by Plasmatic, 7/19/2011 1:52:27 PM]
I have, but don't care. also i don't like it cause it kind of a big reason for chu's inactivity.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that's not the reason why the social part of the site has been so down.