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After a day of immense publicity and hype, Google has decided to shut down invitation to it’s social network site Google+, a site developed in response to Face Book’s success. To be fair, the site is still in development so it should be entirely normal to expect snags. However, the reason given by Google is strange to say the least. In the screenshot below Google’s VP of Social, Vic Gundotra, announced in the coolest way possible, via Google+ that “We’ve shut down invite mechanism for the night. Insane demand. We need to do this carefully, and in a controlled way. Thank you all for your interest!”

Shut down becouse of Insane demand? Now that is either a very clever PR and marketing ploy to garner even more publicty or we may be about to see serious competition in the social networking sphere.

For those who are not entirely familiar with Google+, this is the description of it:

“Circles is Google+’s method for friends management. Google believes we organize our real life relationships in various kinds of circles (“close friends”, “wackos from college”, etc.), giving each circle a different set of rights to our personal information. That’s exactly what Circles is meant to do online, allowing you to form graphical circles of friends into which you can drag and drop new friends as you see fit. When posting content, Google+ allows you to select which circles can see the content.”

Submitted by I. C. Quaye