Google+ Now Open to Public

After about a month of two of invite-only testing, Google+ is now finally open to public on beta.¹ Still being a noob myself in terms of the social networking medium, I’ve been reading and hearing a lot of word from the social networking experts that Google’s brand-new service can topple Facebook and a true worthy competition to the social networking giant. Remember the whole cycle that one service can topple the other in terms of mass popularity once a new similar service launches?

Remember Friendster, the first social networking service back in the mid-2000s?² It was toppled by MySpace. And then, MySpace was toppled by Facebook.

Now the question pops out now: Will Google+ be the one to topple Facebook? One columnist from social media magazine Mashable says that Google+ will as time passes due to its current default features, however to hint things like that is rather too early. Facebook is already ahead of its game with their FB-only games such as Farmville (etc.) and now Sims Social³, in addition to its fan pages feature and the fact that many celebrities from around the world has a FB account. We still have yet to see anything similar to FB‘s current features that are to be added in Google+ and see how its interactivity and user-friendliness can compare and contrast to FB‘s ever-changing features and user interface⁴.

I’ve recently signed up using my current Google account for Google+ just earlier today and so far the interface is pretty sleek and simple compared to FB‘s current interface, however it’s still too early for me to start comparing/contrasting. I still have yet to check out its current features and will do so when I finally have time. From that point on I can probably give a better review.

Sign up for a Google+ account now and add me to your circles when you do.

1. Just like Gmail was before several years ago, being an invite-only alpha testing and then opening to public in beta. [↩]
2. Friendster is now a social entertainment site that is now focused on social gaming and music since its transformation back in June 2011. Granted, I’ve never had a Friendster account before because I was primarily focused in to building websites altogether and really didn’t get the whole social networking concept then. [↩]
3. Then again Google+ has Angry Birds online now LOL [↩]
4. which many users like myself haven’t been digging the changes because everything’s getting all confusing now… [↩]