Where does Google + stand between twitter and facebook?

Facebook has nearly killed Orkut. Google couldn't buy Twitter. Google Buzz, although still active, has not many takers (I am still very active on Google Buzz though). I have been using Google+ for a few months now.

Facebook has connected innumerable long lost friends and classmates, although various social networking sites tried to achieve the same in the past and all of them failed. Facebook succeeded, call it a hard work, vision or luck, it succeeded. People hate to use more than one service for the same purpose. If G+ is trying is pull people out of Facebook and join G+ in bulk, they are more likely to fail miserably. I am trying to guess that this is not the intention of the G+ team.

Twitter is all about catching the news around the world in one liners. Its also about time-pass chats (whats up twitter world? etc), gossiping (Shahrukh Khan and Juhi are not friends anymore, etc), pulling legs of each other, and joking at life.


G+ platform is interesting. It is trying to connect REAL people who may or may not know each other, but share common interests. 

G+ is full of circles. Building your circle and posting in that circle makes more sense than posting everything in public.For example, as a radiologist, I do not want to post something related to radiology in 'public', but post it in 'radiology circle' to have a more meaningful closed communication. 

But we need a large number of active people who carefully select what to talk where? What to share where? 

Will G+ succeed? I hope so.


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