Google+

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Introduction


Google+ is a social networking service operated by Google Inc.
The service launched on June 28, 2011 in an invite –only "field testing" phase.
The existing users were allowed to invite friends, who are above 18 years of age, to create their own accounts.
This was suspended the next day due to an "insane demand" for accounts. Currentl

Features

Circles" enables users to organize contacts into groups for sharing, across various Google products and services. Although other users can view a list of people in a user's collection of circles, they cannot view the names of those circles. The privacy settings also allow users to hide the users in their circles as well as who have them in their circle. Organization is done through a drag-and-drop interface. This system replaces the typical friends list function used by sites such as Facebook.


Design impact


Google+ includes a feature to invite contacts from Yahoo! and Hotmail. At this time, however, there is no official way to import Facebook contacts into Google+; but there are some workarounds to achieve it. Facebook allows users to download their data, but not in a simple format easy to import; network effects make it difficult for a new social network such as Google+ to be successful, and an easy tool to migrate to a rival service would reduce the effect