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Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+ by njl on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @01:55PM (#2706409)
No. Facebook created a collection of small social networks centered around existing real-world communities, then finally linked up all of those small social networks into a single, larger social network. This allowed them to reach saturation on a campus-by-campus basis, until they had finally progressed far enough to reach a tipping point in society at large.
Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+ by skeletonjelly on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @09:05PM (#2708019)
But you can't make the same development with Google's demographic. People you know with a Google account are disparate - friends, online colleagues, family? Filtering down through the geeky to the end user makes sense for them I think.