YouTube Lets You Use Google+ As Your Profile

YouTube has many elements that constitute a social network. User profiles, messaging, a 'wall' and the ability to post content to one another's profiles. Sadly, it doesn't have FarmVille. Google has been improving YouTube with incremental changes to their channel service for years, and now they're integrating with Google+ to provide more identity to your YouTube account. There are a few details to the new feature, so read on to find out what they are.

YouTube has many elements that constitute a social network. User profiles, messaging, a ‘wall’ and the ability to post content to one another’s profiles. Sadly, it doesn’t have FarmVille. Google has been improving YouTube with incremental changes to their channel service for years, and now they’re integrating with Google+ to provide more identity to your YouTube account. There are a few details to the new feature, so read on to find out what they are.

As a YouTube user, you’ll now be able to link to your Google+ profile and have that profile appear to users who view your profile and videos.

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