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Groups and lists also existed months before the first G+ announcement. Hard to copy something you don't know about.

FB groups are totally different to G+ groups. For a start, they're a misnomer: it's not a tool for you to group your social network with. Instead, it's this really horrid kind of "interest group" idea, except it revolves around you, and instead of people joining, you include them. Yuck.

FB lists are kind of like G+ groups except they're a PITA to setup and you have to go out of your way to use them when sharing something.

Another thing I hate about FB is the way the entire service is about sharing everything. You have to be really really careful not to overshare anything. In G+ I know exactly what I'm sharing and with whom.

Screw you FB. I hope you die in a fire.

I was referring to this claim in the article: "Knowing that Google+ would use “circles” to segment actual social networks (“Family,” “Friends,” “People I Secretly Despise,” etc.), Facebook launched Groups and Lists, which hardly anyone used." FB couldn't have copied G+ for Groups and Lists because G+ hadn't been announced when those features launched.

You want thousands of people to die because you don't like their website? How did you get into grad school?

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