What Is the Difference between Google+ and Other Social Networks?

Chances are that you’re already using Facebook and probably Twitter as well. Most social networking–savvy people are also integrating FourSquare, LinkedIn, Delicious, Reddit, and a fairly vast array of other social networking services into their lives.

So why would you want another social service? Well, for starters, Google+ has so many cool features you’d be crazy not to check it out. And even though it’s similar to Facebook in many ways (see Figure 1-1), Google+ is already proving to be far more capable than Facebook when it comes to reaching the right people and more powerful than Twitter for keeping up with breaking news.

FIGURE 1-1 Google+ will look familiar to anybody who’s ...

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