Like I want to make distinction between what I send out to people, I am also making distinctions what I want to read from people. The stream of updates allready in this limited Beta environment is near saturation on what I can process. 
So I am starting to use the ‘Circle’ feature also to streamline the messages I want to read. 
Also struggling with the fact that a lot of ‘unknown’ people march in my following. Do I follow back automatically? At this point yes. They get their own stream and after a while if the content is interesting enough move to a different, more special circle where I will look on a more regular basis. 

This is how Google+ is working out for me at the moment. Curious to hear your experiences.