Google+ is now waiting patiently for your teenagers..

MySpace, Facebook, and all the other social networks are chock full of teenagers, starting at age 13 and going all the way up to eternal teenagers.  Google+ had positioned itself as a more grown-up service, yet even Google isn’t immune to pressure.  Teenagers were demanding access to Google+, and Google+ caved in.  Google+ has opened its doors to teenagers 13 and over.

“With Google+, we want to help teens build meaningful connections online,” said Google vice president Bradley Horowitz in a blog post.  ”Sadly, today’s most popular online tools are rigid and brittle by comparison, so teens end up oversharing with all of their so-called friends.”

Google+ encourages its 90+ million users to think before they share, and makes targeted sharing much easier to process, so in that sense it is much better for teens than Facebook.  Still, Google has announced new plans to follow user activity across its various sites (YouTube, GMail, Google+, Google’s search engine) to develop better customer profiles, starting March 1.  I wonder if this will include teenagers, too; I’d imagine it does.

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