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Facebook is facing competition from Google’s newest social networking program, Google+. How eager are users to build another social network? Time will tell, but it’s worth looking into this newest Google innovation.

How does it work? Users organize themselves into circles of friends so they have a choice as to what they will share with each group. A person is added to the circle by dragging his or her photo on to a labeled circle. Removing someone is easy. Drag their photo out. There are also multi-person video chats, a feature called Sparks that allows users to plug into news of interest to them, and the program also integrates Google’s photo site, Picasa.

At the moment this program is being called a field trial which means it will be tweaked as it grows in number of users. But keep an eye on it. It’s worth watching.

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