Google has launched another social network, +.
At first blush, Google + appears to do pretty much what all social networks do--facilitate connections and sharing.
To hear Google's engineering boss Vic Gundotra tell it, though, you'd think social networks had yet to be invented:
"We believe online sharing is broken. And even awkward ... We think connecting with other people is a basic human need. We do it all the time in real life, but our online tools are rigid. They force us into buckets — or into being completely public ... Real life sharing is nuanced and rich. It has been hard to get that into software.” www.mannastores.com
Yes, it has been hard to get sharing into software. That's why Facebook was created 7 seven years ago. That's why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been trotting around the world for the past 5 years telling everyone that the company's mission is to facilitate "sharing." That's why Facebook is now used by nearly 700 million people worldwide. That's why Facebook is basically subsuming the Internet.
(With the latter, of course, being the real reason Google is launching +).
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