Finally the invitation from a friend worked and I joined the Google+ experiment. After GoogleWave and Google Buzz, perhaps Google+ will be the social networking success that Google has been aiming for in order to take on Facebook.
Is there room for yet another social networking website? Well, Myspace is more or less dead (I deleted my long dormant profile finally last month)and perhaps those with Android mobile 'phones will gravitate towards Google+
It certainly seems to have some more obvious and useful ways of sharing your information only with those who you want to via the concept of "circles" to which you add people (even those who are not yet on Google+). That seems to be a lesson learned from the clunky, bolted on privacy features of Facebook, so that is a tick from me.
Another nifty feature is the automatic 'upload' of pictures and videos from your 'phone (if enabled). These go into a private folder on Google+ which you can share afterwards (or not).
There is a few other interesting concepts I've yet to be able to test - "huddle" where you can gather a group to message together like in a chat room for instance.
The success and failure of the Google+ experiment will depend on how many friends adopt it and utilise it or see the need to.
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