• Business Insider, Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:59 AM

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner is openly disparaging Google's boldest social media effort to date. At an industry event this week, Weiner wondered where people will get the free time to use Google+, reports Business Insider. While Weiner acknowledged that Google had no choice but to embrace social, he questioned whether it's coming to late to the party, and whether consumers' social plates are already full.

"Nobody has any free time," he said, according to BI. "Unlike social platforms and TV, which can coexist, you don't see people using Twitter while they're using Facebook, or using Facebook while they're using LinkedIn." Apparently the possibility that people will embrace Google+ at the expense of Facebook, Twitter, or (gasp!) LinkedIn is not a feasible possibility for Weiner.

He went on to say that the social networking landscape was pretty understandable before Google made its latest move. But added Weiner, "You introduce Google+, where am I going to spend that next minute or hour of my discretionary time? I have no more time."

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