Google has added a new feature to its growing social network Google+ called Google+ Communities. The feature is in many ways similar to Facebook Groups, which allows users to join groups filled with random people but with common interests.
Google+ Communities will support public and private memberships and users can have a wide range of categories for conversations. Community members will also be able to start Google+ Hangouts amongst themselves and users will have the ability share content via the +1 button from across the web with fellow community members.
Google claims it has over 500 million users for Google+. Of these, 235 million are active across a number of Google products while 135 million are active in the Google+ stream on a monthly basis.
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