By Gary Johnson-Laird

So Google + is the new social network in town and already Facebook is stamping its feet in a tantrum.

For those of you who haven't heard of it, Google + is a new social network created by, you guessed it, Google. It has been referred to as an upgraded Facebook. It's pretty similar to Facebook, you have a profile that displays all your information, you can find friends and there's a home page called stream that displays posts from your friends. Google allows you to sort your friends into circles, you can create and name a circle, for example Work, and then drag your friends into the appropriate circle. You can then choose to share things only with specific circles. Google + doesn't allow businesses to create pages so it's aimed solely at people.

People that have been lucky enough to be invited to try Google+ have noticed that finding all your Facebook friends on Google+ can be a tedious task so naturally someone has come up with an application that does it for you. Facebook Friend Exporter is an extension for Google Chrome that allows you to export the list and contact info of your Facebook friends for use with other services.

Facebook noticed people doing this and decided to put a stop to it stating that it violates Facebook's terms of service which states: "you will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission." . Most people think this is ridiculous as Facebook doesn't own their friends contact info, it's just a tool to save potentially hours of browsing through friends pages. This isn't going to stop the developers who are already working on a new version of the extension.

Facebook has also removed an ad for Google+ from its advertising and deleted the account.

It seems that Facebook are getting pretty petty and they obviously see Google+ as a threat and who can blame them, i bet Google+ gives Facebook nightmares. Facebook was great at first but the constant layout changes, application requests, viruses and pointless groups (Don't you hate it when you get home and an octopus has stolen your toaster) have ruined it. But its early days for Google+ so who knows what will happen, but it's worth keeping an eye on.