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Old 02-10-2010, 04:05 AM  
Odin
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Originally Posted by okok View Post
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.
You don't seem to realize how ingrained facebook is in regular peoples lives. Whole families are on it, I don't see some gmail buzz changing that. Everyone hyped about twitter, and the nerds jumped on it, and growth stalled. They have a looooong way to go to ever get near facebook.
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