While Facebook wants to add email to the social network to compete with Gmail, Google could launch new features this week of ’social networking’ in your mail in the cloud.

A new war over social networking and messaging in the cloud is making an appearance on the Internet. If the rumors a few days ago placed to Facebook developing an email service for the social web already has 400 million users, Google could announce this week new social features to your mail system Gmail.
As have posted Wall Street Journal, Google is ready to announce this week a major step to turn Gmail into a true social network. This would be a series of functions closely related to the management of mail contacts.
Thus users can establish a new way to share information and content as well as contribute to new initiatives and existing comment.
With the advent of technology, proliferation of information has been made so much easier compared to the past. Suddenly, everything seems to be available in the information highway. Parents from the yesteryear tend to be less technology savvy than their children and many a times they are left wondering what their children are doing behind the screen.