Ex Googler Tells Gawker, Facebook Has Better Social Skills

Former Google staffer Paul Buchheit told Gawker in an interview via e-mail that he doesn’t think the company can compete with Facebook in the social networking space. “As for social, I expect that Google will find greater success with their self-driving car and moon landing initiatives,” Buchheit told Gawker. “I think it’s worth noting that the two most successful Facebook competitors, Twitter and Foursquare, were both started by people who were relatively unsuccessful at Google.”

Buchheit, who according to his CrunchBase