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Trying out Google's social network

Newsday reporter Patricia Kitchen chats with, from left,

Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Newsday reporter Patricia Kitchen chats with, from left, Becky Kopprasch, Hilary Topper, John Doyle, Nathan King and Steve Haweeli on Google+. Steve Haweeli is featured in the large box. (July 25, 2011)

The last thing Steve Haweeli says he needed in the middle of a very busy year was for "a new social network to land in our laps."

Still, the new kid on the social networking block, Google+ -- with a reported 18 million users -- is not to be ignored, says Haweeli, president of WordHampton, an East Hampton public relations firm. At first, he says, "I was resistant to it. But I don't think you...

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