"Google Plus" First Look

Finally Google has come up with something new. Here is my first impression about the product.

Main Features:

• Circles: No more Friend Request, Its all about anyone to everyone. Removed the concept of friend requests from social networking sites. but how? when u add someone to your circle a notification is sent to the user, no approval needed if someone can add any person in his circle or not.
• Sparks: Sharing became easy, its all about what u Google  :) .Generally we share things which we come across on internet, Google has enabled us to get those interesting stuffs rite inside g+, and share them instantly. We don't have to login or give authorization to different websites of our profile to share stuffs as posts. Basically sharing news stories, links has became easier 
• Hangout: Group Chat at its best, its all about putting your social life on internet but more lively. Enhanced features of group chat with video chat and youtube video sharing has certainly put the whole social life on internet.

Small but excellent features:

• Share someone else's post i.e. re-share. Missing in Facebook
• Grouping of notifications
• Getting post from people who've added me in their circle, even if i don't know them (can be annoying at a later stage, but u can stop this in settings), these posts are nothing but the posts shared publicly by people who've added you in their circle
• Incoming stream: people who've explicitly share a post  with you or with a circle in which your added.

All other features are more or less same as other social networking sites, the only difference is in ease of sharing and uploading data from different sources. But Google plus has still a long way to go. Some of the very common features missing from google+ are

Missing Features:

• Fan Page: I don't see any option to create a business/celebrity/campaign page or basically fan page in Google+
• Group  feature is missing as of now
• Questions/Polls: 
• Messages: This can be fulfilled by email feature (currently there is no option to send email to anyone)
• Events: 
• Applications
• Integration with other social networking sites

I personally loved spark thing the most. I can read news feeds of my Google reader directly here and share with people right away. Finally a good post on Circle algebra : link