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With the aim to compete with, social networking site Facebook, internet search giant Google has recently unveiled its version of a social networking service "Google Plus" to foray and base itself in social networking space .

It proposes to come up with "real-world interactions" and "real-life sharing" online,and facilitates users to post photos, messages, comments and other content from selected groups of friends.

Commenting on the occasion, Google's Senior Vice President for Engineering Vic Gundotra, said that, the aim to come up with Google+ is to add real life experiences to the software that will bridge the gap amongst the users which gets created due to the rigidness of the online tools.

The service has been launched as a field trial that may have some "rough edges" and the project is by invitation only, which is expected to be made available more broadly in the future. To tap itself with the demand of smart phone players it will also be available as an application in the store on Android operating system-based mobile phones.

The service has named few interesting features that will grab the attention of net users and will add newness into the social networking space. The features are: 'Circles', 'Sparks', 'Hangouts' and 'Mobile'. 'Circles' enables users to classify and make different friend groups and share specific content with a particular group. Next one 'Sparks' will function like a feed reader. This will help users to specify their interest and subscribe to various content feeds.

In addition the users can also carry out live video chats with multiple friends at the same time with the help of 'Hangouts' and feature like Instant upload allows users click photographs (on their phones), which will get uploaded automatically in a private album on Google+ while the user is taking pictures. It also enables to decide the person with whom they would share the uploaded pictures. The 'Huddle' feature will allow users to carry out group chat/messaging (text) on mobile devices.

Alongside all the above said exciting features, Google+ also enables users to create groups of contacts with which they share information, such as "your friends from Saturday night," "your parents," and more to give a flavor of real life situation.

In contrast to Facebook, Google+ facilitates video chat with numerous friends at the same time. Google's new social network also promises to let users "share just the right things with just the right people."

It must be noted that Google has earlier tried its hands in the social networking space by launching pilot projects such as Google Buzz and Wave but it could not woo the users to the extent Facebook does at present. With the new initiative, Google+, Google is all set not to repeat the past failures but to give a tough competition to Facebook and enable users to have real life experiences with the software.