Is Google+ safer than Facebook?

Google is synonymous with the Web - from the search engine through Web-based email to video sharing, they are arguably the market leader. However, this has not been the case with social networking. They were constantly searching for a new way to set up a service or an Internet portal to help people connect with each other, finding new friends or even old ones. But it was not only Google who tried this: Yahoo and Microsoft also had a strong proposition to win this market with little success. Then all of a sudden, a young chap called Mark Zuckerberg created a brand new concept and made social networking very popular, and in 6 years they managed to climb all the way up to 2nd place in the Alexa ranking, overtaking many big names like YouTube, Apple, Yahoo and Microsoft. Facebook came from nowhere, and even challenged Google for the very top rank in popularity. Zuckerberg, as a fresh university graduate, had no experience in how to set up an enormous system like this, but he still smashed it and today is fighting to take the No.1 place as can be seen on the Alexa report. It's no surprise therefore that Google is constantly looking for a way to beat Facebook and secure their first position. They already have a popular social network called Orkut. OK, it is only popular in some countries like Brazil or India, but still, it proves their concept, they can do it. Also the software giant have done some interesting projects with Google Wave and Google Buzz. None of them really worked out nor got close enough to steal a market share from Facebook, although both got huge attention from the media as well as from users. New concepts come and go: Google moved on, and have come up with Google+, which is another brand new concept. Looks like Google will keep trying until they get the perfect recipe for the most delicious cake of social networking. They are probably right in sensing the growing need for something new, and that is proved by the overwhelming interest by millions of Internet users. However for us, security experts, it is always of keen interest to see if it is going to be more secure than Facebook? Or could it be just a perfect gateway for spammers?