So I’ve been using Google+ for exactly two weeks now

And I have to say, I’m impressed. Very, very impressed.

At least, that’s the short answer. It still has a ton it needs to improve on before going public. It’s missing a lot of features you’d think they would have included right from the get-go. However, I do think it was wise of them to get the product out in the open this early on, because 90% of the time, users will find problems and scenarios that even all of the employees at Google didn’t discover or think of.

In fact, many of the team members working on the project have already come forth and made short vlogs about upcoming changes; things they’ve gotten as feedback just in the last two weeks, specifically in these five videos right here.

You have to remember that it’s not even public yet (Google’s calling it a 0.1 release, so it’s very much beta), and nobody’s expected to switch to it and make it their main social network. Apparently there are already close to 10 million users on Google+, if not more, depending on who you talk to. We’re definitely gonna see a ton of changes over the next few months, and it should be pretty exciting to see it all change.

If anything, these advances in Google+ will only further push Facebook, Twitter, etc. to innovate even further. I go back to Facebook now and I can barely look at it. It’s just so…ugly and outdated in comparison. But competition is good for everyone! Google+ has already created a ton of buzz and is making waves (see what I did there?) throughout the internet. Expect to see big changes in social networking across the board over the next year.