And before you start wailing, no one’s saying Facebook stole anything from Google+. Obviously and demonstrably not! But if you’re looking for features that are unique to Zuck’s empire now, it is true that you’re going to have to stick to the borderlands. Full pic below. [@MarkMeyerPhoto via @SocialMediaBham]
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Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 3:16 PMFacebook’s updated friend lists and subscriptions are definitely a response to Google+.
Sure they had lists before but they are much more prominent now. You can view the feed from certain lists and also hover over something on someone’s profile and choose which lists to put them into. Both these features are exactly the same as features of Google+. Facebook also adds smart-lists which is nice.
The subscriptions are also a response to the one-way following of people like in Twitter and Google+.
But no, the recent layout change wasn’t stolen…