Google to Launch Facebook Competitor Dubbed 'Google Me'?

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While social networking in some forth or another has existed for quite some time, the online social networking craze didn’t really take off until Tom Andserson decided to launch Myspace.com in 2003. Starting first as just ‘a place for friends’ MySpace has grown into one of the largest online social networks with everyone from individuals to bands and politicians taking part. After seeing the success of MySpace, entrepreneurial individuals everywhere scrambled to collect ideas for ‘the next big thing’.

After MySpace had been dominate for quite some time, along comes Mark Zuckerberg a Harvard college student. First launching a website called Facemash in his sophomore year, Zuckerberg experimented with social networking as we know it today. While Facemash was just a ‘who’s hotter’ type website, what came next changed our world forever.

Launching first as Thefacebook exclusive only to college students, Facebook has grown to be not only the planet’s largest social network but the second most trafficed site in the world, second only to Google.

While Facebook has far from reached its peak and Mark Zuckerberg has already been deemed a billionaire, Google has long been one of the leading forces in online computing ever since it was launched. Well, with more people searching on Facebook for things to pass the time, what is Google to do with such a capable threat? Launch their own social network, of course.

Digg.com founder and current CEO Kevin Rose recently took to twitter to tell us he heard from a source that Google would be launching a Facebook competitor called Google Me only to delete the Tweet shortly after. While Kevin Rose himself is a quite credible source, even more heat has been added to the fire thanks to Facebook’s former CTO Adam D’Angelo.

Now how exactly a former Facebook executive would know so much about a competitor I’m not sure but according to him Google Me is far from a rumor and many people over at Google are hard at work to launch the service.

With the arguable failure of Google’s Twitter competitor, Buzz, could they really have something on their hands with Google Me? Would you use it? Let us know.