Google Plus, anyone?
 

So is anyone paying attention to the new social network? From the sounds of it, it's pretty damn cool and it's not Facebook. Just like Facebook wasn't Myspace. What do you guys and girls think?

I've been asking about for an invite but no such luck yet. I'm not particularly excited about it but wanted to see how it compared to Facebook (which I hardly ever use).

There was a workaround for invites, but it sounds like they closed that off, and email invites are temporarily deactivated.

I miss Facebook's "Like" feature, so I could "Like" anime and people would see a little thing saying, "Skyler and two others liked anime" or some such. You can +1 posts by people, though.

Sparks are an interesting feature, wherein you can get a little random-ass feed on stuff related to a particular "spark" which is something you're interested in. So, if I put yaoi, I can click on the spark and see links to yaoi videos or stuff about Yaoicon and all that jazz.

Circles are easily the best feature of Google+, as they let you split everyone up into little groups, allowing you to control who sees what posts of yours. Only want family to see a post? You can do that. Want everyone but your family to see a post? You can do that, too. It's interesting.

Beyond that, it's a lot like Facebook, but feels faster and smoother. I expect more features will be added in the future, and other features will be changed as well. If I get the ability to invite people, I'll let you all know so you can ask for some.

a little bit of exaggeration, but kind of fair
 

I'll consider google plus as soon as google gets the black and grey color scheme the fuck offa my google.

Not happening. Google's betting the farm on this one. Either Google+ succeeds, or Google as a whole is gonna be hurtin' big time.

EDIT: Unless you're just talking changing the colors, which maybe they'll allow at some point.

That's the point I believe

I do wanna say, Google doing Facebook but with a handful of different ideas is kinda how competition and such usually works, isn't it?

that said time to post drunk pictures
 

Competition is good, Monopoly is bad.
 

Read the comments. You'd be surprised.

Also: This can only be a good thing, even if you don't use it. Competition for Facebook (and Facebook competing with Google Chrome) might inspire both to be a little more careful with private information, and treat their users with a little less disdain.