Google takes on Facebook

[xxMATTGxx]

I don't see it working. What does it have that facebook doesn't? Can't see anything yet..

You can edit your posts, there's one! It's simple and I quite like it so far. I'm sure Google will add even more features to it, but I shall use it.

[Shar]

You can edit your posts, there's one! It's simple and I quite like it so far. I'm sure Google will add even more features to it, but I shall use it.

I'll be using it, I just hope they add more features!

[HotelUser]

It's really nice, well styled and runs quite well. It's like a Facebook clone. I hope it does well because I like its mobile site better than Facebook's.

[Jahova]

G'warn Google!

[Chippiewill]

I was listening to a podcast last night and it had some google devs on it for a while and the stuff like Hangouts seemed really interesting. It also felt like they'd learned their lessons from Buzz and Facebook and it also really has an edge feature wise, especially in terms of making Circles and how Hangouts are formed. The interesting thing is that Google+ is going to have a much more open API than Twitter and Facebook which means that it'll be federating out which is a very clever thing to do in order to drive traffic, you can post on Twitter or Facebook.. or if you post on Google+ it appears everywhere. That's the kind of thing that's going to make it succeed when it's properly open. I really think that Google are trying to do what Apple did to the phone industry and basically make it really simple to do all these things and have the focus on not piling through settings menus like on facebook and instead engaging with your friends and family.

The circles if done right will add an extra dimension to it because no one has been able to make list making easy to do, so facebook in the effort to get over that just didn't bother, you just had friends whether they're school friends, work friends, family etc. and it'll allow for much more personal communication to different groups and allows you to do that very obvious thing where you act very differently to one group than you do to another.

The instant upload is quite nice too, although I can see privacy issues arising from that eventually.

[peteyt]

Did I read it wasn't going to be one service like facebook but just multiple services.

I think a few people may use it, tech enthusiasts and so on, but the general public will stay to what they know.

Facebook kind of in my opinion can be compared to the Wii. They both took something that in a sense was slightly closed off - gamers play games, tech people use computers. Obviously maybe that's a little far fetched, but the important thing is a lot of people who have/use a Wii would never have played on other games, other consoles, and a lot of people who have facebook would never have used other social networking sites - You wouldn't expect to see parents on myspace and stuff.

I'm looking forward to see what Google do, but I think it will be very hard to pull the majority of Facebook users. Nearly everyone seems to be on there, so the need for another social network for many is pointless.

[Casio]

I am part of it now I'm joined

[HotelUser]

To add to this, it was on Engadget that Google plans on incorporating games and questions into Google+

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/30/g...estions-to-th/

[Wig44.]

No matter how good it is, it will take a long time to get the ball rolling and get facebook users over en masse.

[xxMATTGxx]

I found this a good read to be honest:

http://www.neowin.net/news/all-the-w...-isnt-facebook