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Originally Posted by okok
Google is continually launching, acquiring, and refining a collection of tools that can go way deeper than Facebook at connecting people. For example,
- Reader, it's so more a social media tool than a simple RSS aggregator
- Profile, there's your "who am I" page
- Mail, well, mail-- and today it will become Twittery
- YouTube, social video
- and so on
Once you get all the tools in place, you just need a "Kill Facebook" switch in Gmail -- and a benign little link in google.com -- that funnels users to a "Google Network" page, where they see a dashboard view of all the social media/network tools.
The nerds hop on the train today, and the normals show up at the station tomorrow.
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It may well be that google is throwing a lot of money at this but Facebook. Myspace, Bebo have been around a long time and its hard to get surfers to change from something they are familiar and comfortable with using. I think Google will have a hard time converting people from facebook ect