The great thing about Google+ is that you don't need your friends to move there to derive value from it. Rather, it seems to be designed to follow a three-phase growth process, first supplanting Twitter, and then Facebook and Foursquare.

The asymmetric connection model makes it easy to fill your stream with enough signal to be useful, much like Twitter. This allows individuals to discover and begin using the service independent of their broader social network.

Which is where circles and check-ins come in: If you and enough your friends are already visiting Google+ of your own volition, why go elsewhere to share something with them? If enough folks in the area are already paying attention to Google+, why not check in there instead of on Foursquare?

It strikes me as less of a Facebook killer than Buzz 2.0, but with vastly broader institutional support and the tools to scale from that into a Facebook replacement, once your own social graph is sufficiently on board. All it takes is time.

Edit: Oh, and sparks! Sparks are great if you want to use Google+ but can't find enough users to fill your stream, yet. It's like googlebot-curated RSS. Again, it gives users a reason to come to Google+, even if their friends haven't.

Seems to send an email to all your facebook friends that have a *@facebook.com email (about half of my friends).

Did not give me the opportunity to review nor edit the email before sent. Be careful if you have business contacts as Facebook friends!

Why would I want to have all my crufty 'friends' from facebook on G+? I added most of them out of politeness. Let them find me on G+ on their own.

This is a clear case where 'Exodus for Google+' would have been a much better name.

The name suggests people are leaving Google+ not leaving for Google+.

I just executed an "Exodus" request from this service, and it is still up and running and working as of 4:41 PST.

Since Facebook hasn't blocked this application as of yet, I wonder if Facebook is taking the stance that the more people that see Google+ now, the more people might see that Google+ isn't as useful and polished as Facebook.

I love Google+ and am an active user, but they still need quite a few more features (checkins, business pages, iOS integration etc) before they'll be hitting their stride for the masses.

Regardless, this has been a fun month of July!

Facebook will ban this app from FB Connect in 3.. 2.. 1..

Fuck you, Facebook. Seriously. Fuck you.

Sorry, just frustrated about them terminating this app. I was just about to try it out, too. :(

Where does the app get the google+ invites from?

The Facebook Autobot is going to kill this app..hell Zuckerberg will do it himself..careful guys

Aw, it's shut down now.

Maybe it would be good to open source this thing and get lots of people to host their own. Distributed Exodus.

make it open source