Google Reader Become Social Networking?

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It seem that Google try to alter Google Reader into a social networking tool, wants to become more "social" and get us to automatically read what our friends share and engage with them further.

Look! what did Google Reader done, a few new ways that you can add and share interesting things in it.

Share anything with a bookmarklet (add the bookmarklet to browser and save any web page though it have no RSS feed).

Share items with a note (share a lot of items on Google Reader).

Add a note (send your friends short messages).

Google also added a few other small features and they mention that to make your sharing even more awesome!

Google hope we like these new sharing features and thought we might like to use it, now and then.

What’s going on?

Are these only some useful additions from Google Reader? or does Google want us to use these service instead of RSS news aggregator (which made it become popular) that already exist in the Reader?

But how you want to use Google Reader?

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I remember when I first signed up to Google Reader. It was alright. I really liked the idea of having an online RSS/XML reader, instead of a program... and the fact that it was Google that did it reassured me that I didn't need to create another account etc. or that kafuffle. I also <3 their coding for making everything so damn simple (yet elegant) to use!

I recently logged in and it started blabbering on about how my friends could find out about what I was reading.... I didn't want this! My feeds are mine! I made sure they weren't public etc.... but yes, it looks like they're trying to make it into a social thing with Google Profiles just over the horizon!

It's going to make it even easier for people to look you up if all your Google Account stuff is all on one page! Such as Reader, Groups etc.

Let's see what Google does next Wink

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