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Posted at 01:24 PM ET, 08/05/2011

Google Plus — some literary circles

Google+ has now passed 20 million users. And it may soon surpass Twitter in its percentage of online adults.

But organizing friends into circles is hardly new. In fact, I recently unearthed the Google Circles of some famous characters from literature. They were about what you’d expect ...



(Inspired by Dante, The Bible, The Glass Menagerie, Romeo and Juliet, The Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Macbeth, Lord of the Flies, and Last of the Mohicans. I’m working on a better graphic!)

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