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Google is newest addition to social network

Internet giant enters the fray with ‘Plus’

By Michelle Madaras

First there was MySpace.

Then, Facebook took over and all but wiped MySpace off of the social network landscape.

Now, Google wants in on the action. The monster corporation known for its search engine, maps and image galleries is branching out into the social media market with a new program, Google Plus.

“Google Plus is a project that aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in the real world: you share different things with different people,” according to a Google spokesperson. “We started the Google Plus project to see what a Google approach to sharing would look like, and to see if we could come up with a better way of connecting with the different people in all of our lives.”

“To organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful” is the holistic mission of all Google’s programs, according to a statement on the company’s website. Google Plus attempts to incorporate the aspect of social networking into this ideal.

Google Plus is in its trial phase, and one can only be admitted after receiving an invitation from a current member, and users must be at least 18 years old. As of July 14 more than 10 million people had joined Google Plus, according to the company.

“We are not letting users under 18 years of age into the field trial until we’re confident that we have the right teen safety features in place,” the spokesperson said. She noted Google plans to establish a minimum membership age at no less than 13 years old.

The selling point of Google Plus over other social networking sites is the versatility the user has to share specific information between friends, family, co-workers and the other people they interact with. To make this possible, Google Plus created “circles” to which a user adds contacts under the designated headings of friends, family, work, club or any other name the user chooses. This feature allows users to share information with specific groups of associates, and the people in those groups are the only ones who can view the post.

As with every type of social networking privacy and security are major issues, and Google has acknowledged these issues are a legitimate quandary for parents and professionals.

“We believe in providing users with transparency and meaningful choices,” the spokesperson said. “Google Plus makes it easy for users to share different things with different people, and understand how they appear to others.

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