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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by BvS on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @07:35PM (#2736466)
What do you do if you want to share something (eg pictures) to a certain group of people (eg everyone who attended your wedding) and also give everyone else in this group the possibility to post new things (eg additional pictures) to everyone else in this group without adding every single person? You can't do that with circles (yet) but facebook groups are perfect for that.

Another usecase would be the "epic bro" circle Google used in one of the Google+ commercials. Why should I and everyone of my "epic bros" create the same circle separately?

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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by parfe on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @11:27PM (#2737002)
Google Circles and Facebook Lists are the same feature.

Facebook groups are different. I only mention it because a lot of people seem confused (Lots thinking Fb Lists and Fb groups are interchangeable).

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Re:Why Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Response To Google+ Is... by BvS on Thursday July 07, 2011 @05:06AM (#2737801)
Agreed, but I'm not sure if groups are in the end much more important / better solution for what people want when sharing with a limited number of friends.
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