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IMHO Google was somewhat psyched out by Facebook and made the classic mistake of copying their rival. Google+ is almost an exact copy of Facebook.

Yet it's so much worse...

the first two or three version were unbearably slow and awkward, but since the 'card' redesign, it's reactive (coming from a fps fetishist on a 2006 laptop) and usable. When G+ came, FB had all this in place, their html framework was hyper lean in all possible ways. Every time I had to use FB after G+ I was shocked to witness the difference. FB gained some weight since but it's still a smooth cut.

Oddly, I still find G+ almost unusably slow on a fast Core i5-powered desktop. And I use it every day. Facebook's performance is much better.

Google+ is also better in many ways...

Sadly, these many ways are not my ways...

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