The idea is that you already use what were partitioned services; picassa, gmail, docs, chat, groups, calendar, voice, etc. Thus integrating them is obvious. H

The idea is that you already use what were partitioned services; picassa, gmail, docs, chat, groups, calendar, voice, etc. Thus integrating them is obvious. However, the idea of Google+ gradually tightening the relation of these services separates itself from facebook in terms of how you use your social network. Facebook is largely an image sharing network to communicate with friends and family, while you use many google services such as a calendar, gmail, docs, and groups for work and networking and not necessarily just friends and family. Facebook will arguably never be something i use professionally (aside from promotions), while Google+ is something i already use professionally and could easily use instead of facebook socially.