In a move made evidently with the intent of turning on the heat of competition against some of its closest rivals in the segment, the social networking site being run by the search engine giant Google, Google+, will now allow even teenagers to join in and make full use of all the services available. As per recent reports, it has been claimed that Google+ is now accessible by kids over 13 years of age.

No wonder the move will show up fair amount of competition with other social networking giants, including the likes of Facebook and MySpace. It has even been claimed that the service will soon come up with a number of added safety features for safeguarding users in the said age bracket from episodes of online bullying, harassment, and things like that. Also, it will offer added controls on features like which type of users can get in touch with teenaged users on the network apart from placing various effective and mandatory restrictions in terms of group video chat.

While explaining the company’s intention, future planning along with announcing the grand news of Google+ being available for teens, product vice president of Google+, Bradley Horowitz wrote in his blog post that, “In life, for instance, teens can share the right things with just the right people (like classmates, parents or close ties). Over time, the nuance and richness of selective sharing even promotes authenticity and accountability”.

He further expressed his frustration on the present state of social networking sites and their functionalities, claiming that the majority of famous online tools are somewhat inflexible but breakable when it comes to comparison by and large, and therefore it there are possibilities of teens mistakenly leading to over-sharing of information and personal details with a large number of people in their so-called “friend list”.

However, he assured that Google+ will come up with advanced security settings to make sure teens are always out of reach for fraudulent activities and people who may subject them to undue stress or harm on their social network.