Importing contacts from other social networks
Google+ includes a feature to invite contacts from Yahoo! and Hotmail.44 At this time, however, there is no official way to import Facebook contacts into Google+; but there are some workarounds to achieve it.45 Facebook allows users to download their data, but not in a simple format easy to import; network effects make it difficult for a new social network such as Google+ to be successful, and an easy tool to migrate to a rival service would reduce the effect.46
Censorship by some governments
Within a day of the website's launch, various news agencies reported that Google+ was blocked by the People's Republic of China.47 This is part of a wider policy of censorship in Mainland China.48 The Iranian government has also blocked access to Google+ from 11 July 2011,49 as part of Internet censorship in Iran.50
Google+ includes a feature to invite contacts from Yahoo! and Hotmail.44 At this time, however, there is no official way to import Facebook contacts into Google+; but there are some workarounds to achieve it.45 Facebook allows users to download their data, but not in a simple format easy to import; network effects make it difficult for a new social network such as Google+ to be successful, and an easy tool to migrate to a rival service would reduce the effect.46
Censorship by some governments
Within a day of the website's launch, various news agencies reported that Google+ was blocked by the People's Republic of China.47 This is part of a wider policy of censorship in Mainland China.48 The Iranian government has also blocked access to Google+ from 11 July 2011,49 as part of Internet censorship in Iran.50
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