We thought it would be interesting to take it a step further and see what the founders of some of the world's top Social Media sites are saying about Google+.
Referring to Hangouts, the Google+ video conferencing feature, Zuckerberg dismissed the feature's exclusivity as a big threat to Facebook and says that Google+'s biggest challenge is in building up its user base. People will need to invest time in recreating their social graphs on another social network.
Anderson gave his thoughts on Circles, the heart of Google+. Comparing it to Facebook Groups, he said that the key to unlocking the winning model lies in thinking about what each model does best. He suggested that Facebook's model is more like Yahoo Groups with forum capability, while Google+ Circles are more like email distribution lists meets Twitter with better commenting. In the end he said, it's about which model users will prefer.
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