Social media networks have always been waging an undeclared war against one another, without any among those gaining an upper hand for long. For every LinkedIn, there has always been a Twitter, and every Friendster has been challenged at its own game by a Hi5. However, with over 750 million users, Facebook, at one point of time, seemed to be right at the top of the social media game. The situation is still like that, but for how long is now a matter of speculation, thanks to a little project carried out by search engine giant Google, namely Google+.

Started a little more than a couple months ago, Google+ already has more than 32 million users. Of course, the gargantuan population figure of Facebook won’t be beaten so easily, but given the constant rise in the popularity of Google+, you never know what the future might hold. While other social media websites like Orkut, LinkedIn, Twitter, and MySpace have already lost to Facebook, Google+ seems hell bent on beating the social media giant in its own game. Only time can influence the outcome of this epic social media battle now.

The moment you think of social networking, you cannot help but think of Google+. The newest social media service managed to amass over 25 million users in just 4 weeks of launch.

There are many views about the newest kid on the social media block, but what do the social media gurus think? Let’s quickly have a look -

Facebook CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, isn’t too worried. He feels Google+’s primary challenge would be to build up its user base and convince people to actually spend a large portion of their social media time on it.

Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg, seems to have studied various features of Google+ in detail. He thinks Google’s social media platform is a great effort, and even echoed the growing consensus that Google+ is better than other popular social networking services being used nowadays. He also added that Google+ would be the favorite social media channel for celebrities to communicate with their fans.

Finally, there is Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace, who says that the success of Google+ as a social networking community strongly depends on user preferences. Mr. Anderson also believes Google+ Circles are more like email distribution lists, but with the crispness of Twitter, and of course, made more user-friendly with better commenting options.

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Google Plus seems to be ready to take on social media giants like Facebook on their home turf. The social media division of the search engine giant has made 16 interactive games available for users, including the phenomenal Angry Birds. The games will be playable in either single player or multiplayer modes (wherever applicable), and very soon may be available to mobile users as game apps, as well.

In the initial stages, only a handful of lucky users of the social media network will be able to access these games via a special icon on their profile pages. As time progresses, however, the titles will obviously be available to every user. In fact, Google has revealed its plans to allow cross-platform support for these games, thereby ensuring that mobile users can play a round of game just about any time with their friends, even if the latter are using computers.

Could this act as just another nail on the coffin for other social media websites? Only time can tell, but one thing is for sure. Google Plus is definitely here to stay, and given the possibilities they can afford to explore (integrating office suites with social media, for instance), it is likely to be around for quite a long time to come.