Google cofounder Sergey Brin says that he's never been able to get into social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
"I'm not a very social person myself," Brin told the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. He explained that he's tried other social networking sites because he feels that it's his job, but never found any of them compelling until Google+.
Google+, the search giant's social network, launched in June. The company recently announced Google+ has more than 40 million users, something Google SVP of social Vic Gundotra said genuinely surprised the team. Gundotra noted that Brin was "intimately involved" in the design of the product and of the team.
As for why Brin finds Google+ more compelling than Facebook, Twitter and other social networks: He says that nobody got sharing right. He believes that Circles, Google+'s system for selectively sharing content with different groups of people, has made sharing much more useful.