As someone who uses both Facebook and G+ occasionally, I find Facebook to be vastly inferior in terms of interface, functionality, and mobile applications. The

As someone who uses both Facebook and G+ occasionally, I find Facebook to be vastly inferior in terms of interface, functionality, and mobile applications. The main reason G+ or any other company will have trouble competing on features (which are easily added) is simply userbase and lack of interoperability. With something like webmail you can switch providers based on your preferences but nobody else needs to do anything. You can keep emailing the same people like you always have. But with Facebook-style communications networks, you have to use their service to communicate with people on it. And since Facebook was the first to really get everyone to join (not just the teens and twentysomethings who had Friendster and Myspace pages), it has that critical mass of users. So even if I think the G+ app runs better and looks nicer on my phone or the service does a better job of letting me specify who sees my posts, it won't make a bit of difference if I want to have a group chat or event planning page with 10 friends and Facebook is the only platform we all have in common. I don't own Google stock and I'm surely not going to start pestering friends and family to pull up stakes and move to G+ because I like it better. And that will be the case for a while I think...at least as long as the closed-network Facebook-style services are concerned. I don't see them being unseated until something new really takes off the way the current form of social networks replaced mass email chains for people sharing links, pictures and weekend plans with friends and family.