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Clearly the author has not used Google+. The service has photos, group video chat where you can watch YouTube with other friends, and status sharing, among other things. It is not a professional network or productivity tool.

Although Google would probably lose if they directly competed with Facebook rather than making their own unique service, it is certainly much closer to Facebook than LinkedIn.

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I think it would be interesting if you could share your google docs through Google+.

Imagine working on a book (or a school project): create a circle around that, then share your latest work with the circle. Anytime someone wants to annotate or change something, they all have access to the same file and comments/hangouts/etc. can be made around it.

Sci-fi and fantasy authors do this frequently albeit through email, and online book clubs.

The point is that, like other Google products, it could be ported to Google Apps

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