At its core, Glue invades your privacy by monitoring your activity on certain websites and allowing you to show your enthusiasm for different noun-based objects (people, places, or things). That alone is not all that great, and has been most of my experience so far.
What makes it better is the networking capability it has. You can instantly add other glue users to follow from your Facebook friends and those you follow on Twitter, in addition to following other Glue users that show up in the Glue Bar when you visit a site monitored by Glue. Once you happen across more people, you can comment on the comments they have left, see what they like or where they have been.
I consider myself lucky to know a few BIG movie buffs, and would love for them to start using Glue to show me which ones they like or dislike by slapping a link to their review of said movie into the "2 cents" Glue comment section. That might also promote more reading of their reviews. Ha!
I have only done a little bit of this so far, and most of it has been on Yelp, recommending local restaurants. I look forward to doing more, and seeing what my friends can do to tell me about what they like, whether it is books, movies, movie stars, music, recording artists, gadgets, restaurants, stocks, TV shows, or wine.
Now if only I could motivate them a bit more...
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