Google+ has now been released to the general public. Initially it was being beta trialed to 25 million users, but over the last few days, the general release has been rolled out.
Google+ is Googles latest attempt to muscle its way into Facebooks ever growing user base. Google+ has a few features that differentiate it from Facebook, so that it hopes to offer something different that will appeal to a mass audience.
Google+ has a "Circles" feature, which allows users to group their friends, business colleagues, family etc so that users can choose what information they show specific people. This will have several advantages over Facebooks current structure as it will hide a users weekend antics from their work environment, instead of the Facebook model which currently shows all of your wall activity to all of your friends.
Facebook has, in the last few days added a new groups section of its own, but it appears to work slightly differently as it promotes your "close friends" posts to the top of the page, but still appears to show everything to everyone.
There is also some confusion over Facebooks complicated account permission controls, which are not particularly straightforward to administer.
Google+ looks to have simplified this process, making operation and consealment of what might be considered to be career damaging information a lot more straight forward.
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