The Fight Between Google and Facebook

. “People abandoning [Facebook] is unlikely,” says Bernardo Huberman, director of the Social Computing Lab at Hewlett-Packard. “The only fatal shortcoming would be a very serious breach of privacy that would scare anyone from using it.” So Google needs to offer a reason to leave Facebook. Start with games. More Americans now play FarmVille, the habit-forming game easily accessible on Facebook, than work on real farms. Google has never been a gami…








