Alice Cheung writes that Google has decided to challenge Facebook in its social network dominance, releasing its new social sharing platform, Google+.

Google+...

Google+ has all the features of Facebook, but tweaked so they’re a little shinier and more user-friendly. It also has the advantage of having a ‘new video-calling feature in tandem with Skype’, and has incorporated elements of other social media sites, like Twitter, into its interface. Alice writes that Google’s decision to limit Google+ invitations to a ‘select few’ piqued interest in the project, and perhaps once Google+ gets all its kinks ironed out, it might be able to surpass Facebook.

...or Facebook?

I signed up for a Google+ account in order to video-call my friends in other provinces and had to wrangle an invitation from a friend of a friend. Google+ definitely has more features than Facebook. However, I find Facebook more accessible, and it’s easier to find people on Facebook. Everyone I know only uses Google+ for its video-call function. They use Facebook for their other social sharing needs. From my point of view, Google+ is nowhere near overtaking Facebook, but in the future perhaps we’ll all be in ‘hangouts’ with each other, rather than Facebooking everyone.