adam qureshi

Talk about hitting two birds with one stone: Besides Facebook, Twitter is another social-media site threatened by Google+.

Users of Google’s new social network have found it is essentially a “Twitterbook” hybrid. As with Twitter, users can follow large numbers of people. As with Facebook, users control who they share information with. You can broadcast to everyone on the network or share photos of a night out with friends only.

Facebook, at least, is taking Google+ seriously enough to conduct reconnaissance on the service. Facebook product manager Sam Lessin has been posting test messages, presumably to understand how the service works. “Why are you following me?” he asks his nearly 2,200 followers on the site. Facebook director of product Blake Ross goes a step further. A recent posting of his encouraged users to contact Facebook’s vice president for user feedback—via Google+.

source:WSJ.com - Overheard: Socially Active http://on.wsj.com/phvJUf