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Facebook’s revamped news feeds that highlighted more important stories got — like many of Facebook’s prior revamps — a cold reception from users. Some readers even suggested ways to revert back to the old Facebook design, such as setting the account language to English (U.K.).

Meanwhile Google+, which rolled out tons of new and improved features when it went public Tuesday, got a rousing vote of approval for the first time. berlinstartup suggested to try Google +1 if you hate Facebook’s new update

Social network users brought out all sorts of comparisons to make sense of the new changes on Facebook and Google+.

About the new Google+, Swedish technology entrepreneur Anton Perlkvist, wrote that it was no longer “like a house party without alcohol [where] everyone is just standing around waiting…

Could this be a turning point in the battle for dominance between Facebook and Google?

Facebook, at 750 million users, is the world’s No.1 social networking service. Google won’t say how many people have signed up for Google+, but analysts estimated upward of 25 million users. That was before it went totally public today.

Google+ hasn’t lost all its critics, including College Humor, who roasted the social network Wednesday by releasing a video that called it “the antisocial network.”

But PC World points out that Google+ has got the advantage over Facebook in one category — it encourages people to have more followers.