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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?

Networks Evolve

I´ve spent the last week playing with the new Google+, and I´m here to tell you the service is pretty damn awesome.  Dozens of Silicon Valley startups, especially social behemoths Facebook and Twitter, must have had some pretty fun meetings over the last several days.  The title of the meetings: how the f*ck are we going to defend ourselves against this incredibly daunting offensive from the big G?  I´m not sure if they can.

Social Networking Improved?

Google+ is like Facebook.  The interface looks almost identical, with the classic three column homepage seen in Facebook.  But the differences start to kick in immediately when you try to make friends.

In Facebook, you cannot friend someone unless they friend you back.  And once that person does friend you, for the most part they see all of your updates and you see all of their updates.  The result is a privacy nightmare and a news feed filled with everybody´s junk.  Most of us have not fully appreciated these glaring problems at Facebook because until Google+ came around there was no other game in town to show us how bad they were.  Now we know better.

Read More: http://singularityhub.com/2011/07/06/google-is-awesome-facebook-maimed-twitter-mortally-wounded/

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