Google+ claim to be different, or at least an alternative to Facebook. Instead of Facebook lists, you put people into your “Circles” and share to your different circles. They claim to give you more control on who sees what when you share. The news on the ‘net is that this is Google’s challenge to Facebook. It is definitely an alternative.
From Google’s introduction:
+Circles: share what matters, with the people who matter most:
Not all relationships are created equal. So in life we share one thing with college buddies, another with parents, and almost nothing with our boss. The problem is that today’s online services turn friendship into fast food—wrapping everyone in “friend” paper—and sharing really suffers: …
