Just this past week Google launched Google+, their much hyped/talked about answer to Facebook/Twitter/Myspace...basically every social networking site out there. And of course the web world has gone wild with either calling it absolutely brilliant, saying its too much like Facebook, its not enough like Facebook, or that it's absolute crap and rubbish.
I was lucky enough to get in (thanks Laura B) and here's what I think: It's too early to pass judgement on it. Seriously its a week old, yes there are going to be growing pains. There have already been a couple and the Google+ team has worked quickly to fix them. I'm not saying give them all time before you pass judgement, but two days after it launches in private beta is a bit early to decide where it falls in the technical world.
Personally I think we've started to judge things too quickly. We instantly want to compare everything to Facebook or Twitter and point out what the competition does and doesn't do just like them. But I think we forget that Facebook had a couple of years to build up to what it is now, I mean it was closed off to just University students when it first started. And Twitter? Let's not forget that when it first made the main stream with news networks and athletes using it, the service crashed every other day. And that was just two years ago! And yet it's still here.
If it doesn't work for you that's fine. But so far I like, I'm going to give it a shot before I make up my mind completely.
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