Anyone giving Google+ a try?

[Dupo]

I am really liking Google+ over Facebook.

First and foremost, no stupid games!! The circles are a great idea that you can send content to certain people instead of EVERYONE on your list. Can keep family stuff for family, friends stuff for just friends or share it with everyone (all circles).

You can also follow people like you would in Twitter. You can add them to your circle and follow their posts. They do not necessarily have or need to add you to their circle for you to follow them. Very Twitter-esq.

Popout video is great, bigger resolutions. No more tiny video that facebook limits you to.

Its got a familiar facebook appearance to it with wall posts, friend suggestions etc. Only thing different is the wall posts (streams on google). You can view streams of only family, only co workers, only friends or any custom circle you choose to view .. instead of sifting through EVERYONES posts and scrolling for an hour till you get to the old stuff you've seen already.

The other cool thing is the "hangouts". Basically it is group chat either typing, video, voice or all 3 at once. You can host a chat room like you would on Yahoo chat, but with this you can limit who can join (your different circles, depending on who you share it with). Neat feature: you and whoever is in your hangout, can watch youtube videos in sync with each other.

I think after this gets out of beta and starts incorporating other Google apps (maps, reader, blogger, navigation, calander ... etc) that this could definetly give Facebook a run for its money. What will suck, is trying to get everyone to switch or atleast use both. Its going to take time trying to ween people off facebook and on to something much easier to use and much more diverse. I think once you get past the learning curve of the circles thing .... that it is just as easy to use as facebook, with less crap, less ads, less apps, less bs.

If you want an invite .... let me know.

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