Google Plus Social! Wow!

Last night I received an invite to +.  I accepted it set up a quick account and invited my son, an autistic hacker (no not the one in a British jail) who is really "l337" and my wife who is an advanced user.  Before I could get any more invites out Google shut down the invite system as they were overwhelmed.

My son set up his profile instantly, my wife is still working on hers.

The "circles" concept is huge.  One of my gripes with Facebook is the level of openness I have with some of my "friends", but hey we're all "friends" right?  With circles I can use the standard "acquaintences", "friends", "family" or create my own "my masonic cult that is really ruling the world."  I can control the sharing.

If the invite system opens back up I hope to squeak a few more out, the other features look neat but I have no one to try them with.

I don't know if Google will dominate with this but I think they are going to make a dent on Facebook.  Mashable hinted that Zuckerberg had a + account already.  Maybe some needed changes will be made to Facebook.

Dave 

Thanks for the video blog Kim,

With all the buzz around Google+ you would think that the company has created an online nirvana. Really it's just a ploy to triangulate your personal profile and soak the advertisers.

Indeed. Wow. Why Google feels the need to reinvent the wheel is beyond me. They don't need to have a +. Just be Google. And I'll continue to "Google it."

This social network looks difficult...all those names. Huddle, Spark, etc. Geez...someone is trying too hard.

Wow. Almost as exciting as the new Google homepage. Like, wow. Great summation, Kim!

Boy, this is about as exciting as I thought it was going to be... so... not exciting at all. Great job giving us a walk-through, Kim. I don't know if Google intended for its social network thing to be so hilarious but you've succeeded in making it so!