Circles are for real!

Gene Expression
By Razib Khan
Jul 5, 2011 12:29 AMNov 19, 2019 9:22 PM

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Google Circles knockoff hits Facebook courtesy of unofficial plug-in:

...Circle Hack is a self-described "one-night experiment with Javascript" created by a few Facebook engineers in a non-affiliated capacity, which unofficially brings Google Circles-like functionality to the top social network. The creators of the Facebook plug-in have borrowed liberally from Google on this one (turnabout is fair play, perhaps)....

This is great. At a minimum Google+ could become like the Chrome browser. It might not attain a dominant market share position (though Chrome already has a higher share than IE on this site, and others, with a tech-savvy audience), but it could push the edge of innovation. I don't have a problem with Facebook, but with the collapse of MySpace years ago it has had a de facto monopoly in the general social networking space. Finally, an anecdatum: a friend noticed that six of his contacts deactivated their Facebook accounts in the past few days. He didn't know why, but there's a high probability that these may be the types who just want to start over like Ezra Klein suggested.

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