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Google+ is a departure from Facebook—here are a half dozen things the newest social network can do that the biggest one can’t.

Google’s new social network Google+ is going head-to-head with the biggest social network of them all, Facebook.

But for Google’s new platform to succeed in gaining social marketshare, it has to also entice users by letting them do new things, too, stuff they can’t do in Facebook.

After the lackluster reception of Google Buzz and Wave, the Internet giant had to completely rethink its approach to online social interaction before announcing Google+. And it has. Google+, which is still in a trial phase and not yet open to all, steps back from the friend-accumulation game and instead considers how we, as social human creatures, already think about our friends. The outcome is cliques, or what Google is calling Circles. In real life, friends come in mini sub-groups, More >