How not to do social network engineering..."4 people you might know on Google+"

Oh, how wonderful are email blasts.  

Go out and touch your customer...this is what passes as relationship building in the age of mass mobile marketing.

Cost to google?    $zero.  

Loss of trust in Google as a whole? almost complete  

Value to google: Much Less Than $Zero

Why "force" the network connections?  Just bring us an infrastructure that's compelling and we're yours.

Let's see, might I know any?

No

No

Yes

No

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From: Google+ team <noreply-475ba29f@plus.google.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:38 AM
Subject: 4 people you might know on Google+

Hi Frish! Here's some people you might know on Google+.
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