Facebook gave you friends and brands, via fan pages… Twitter gave you brands too but more so, it gave you celebrities.

Google+, despite being very young, is already able to give you the top brass in at least 2 prominent web companies.

Google+ equals Google execs

Who would have ever thought that you could read the Google quarterly report directly from one of the co-founders himself? Earlier this week, people heard rumors that Google+ was at 10m users but it was confirmed by Larry Page right on Google+ itself, in his quarterly report. Not in press releases, not in an interview but in a Google+ post to the very users that were using it!

Even better, you get to comment on it, so that he’d read it! And that’s not all, you get both co-founders, you get the top execs, the engineers and more.

You get to report bugs and feature requests right to the key people in charge, and they answer you!

For a list of Google execs on Google+, go here: https://plus.google.com/103399926392582289066/posts/LX4g7577DqD

Mashable news at your finger tips

You know how Mashable on Twitter is just about the closest thing to be 100% influential there is? Think retweets. Just about every single tweet they make gets 100+ retweets.

Anyway, now you can bypass the social feed and go right to the top, or off to the side… as it were.

There’s an official Mashable News account on Google+ but if you want more than that, you can now get a nice big list of Mashable employees, even Pete Cashmore, the founder and CEO.

For a list of Mashable execs on Google+, go here: http://mashable.com/2011/07/15/mashable-google-plus

Facebook is doing their homework, you can ask them

Here’s a breakdown of the Facebook people currently on Google+ (yes, one social network using another, the horror!)

Founder/CEO
Mark Zuckerberg http://goo.gl/V2lwv

Executive Team
Christopher Cox (VP, Product) http://goo.gl/ddxcw
Lori Goler (VP, Human Resources & Recruiting) http://goo.gl/wMe3v
Dan Rose (VP, Partnerships & Platform Marketing) http://goo.gl/h1199
Sheryl Sandberg (Chief Operating Officer) http://goo.gl/uyz9p
Elliot Schrage (VP, Global Comm., Marketing & Public Policy)http://goo.gl/viVLv
Mike Schroepfer (VP, Engineering) http://goo.gl/YhSzH
Bret Taylor (Chief Technology Officer) http://goo.gl/iV4uy

Directors
Kate Aronowitz (Director of Design) http://goo.gl/6vKAO
Ethan Beard (Director of Facebook Developer Network)http://goo.gl/Nv6Dx
Peter Deng (Director of Product Management) http://goo.gl/sN5Qe
David Fisch (Director of Business Development) http://goo.gl/NUceN
Debbie Frost (Director of Comm./Public Affairs) http://goo.gl/bgW2y
Justin Osofsky (Director of Platform Partnerships) http://goo.gl/7C1Ra
Blake Ross (Director of Product) http://goo.gl/AecYg
Alex Schultz (Director of Growth) http://goo.gl/os20Z
Vaughan Smith (Director of Corporate Development) http://goo.gl/HLuKb

Product
Paul Adams (Product Manager) http://goo.gl/XWAmr
Eric Antonow (Product Marketing) http://goo.gl/v90P2
Will Cathcart (Product Manager) http://goo.gl/93PoL
Luke Delorme (Product Manager) http://goo.gl/1vZ57
Rohit Dhawan (Lead Product Manager, FB Pages) http://goo.gl/i9M59
Naomi Gleit (VP, User Feedback) http://goo.gl/i3c4s
Adrian Graham (Product Manager, FB Questions) http://goo.gl/bC68P
Cat Lee (Platform Product Marketing) http://goo.gl/xtZnx
Sam Lessin (Product Manager) http://goo.gl/DvQWb
David Recordon (Senior Open Programs Manager) http://goo.gl/LF9oo

Engineering
Keith Adams (Software Engineer) http://goo.gl/Hvbgt
Aditya Agarwal (Engineering Director) http://goo.gl/2OAJr
Arjun Banker (Software Engineer) http://goo.gl/HA3xi
Jing Chen (Software Engineer) http://goo.gl/cu0s7
Brent Goldman (Software Engineer) http://goo.gl/5iwIH
Benjamin Golub (Engineer, Platform) http://goo.gl/ugXAw
Adam Hupp (Software Engineer) http://goo.gl/EEHdz
Pedram Keyani (Engineer, Site Integrity) http://goo.gl/vRK82
Tobie Langel (Software Engineer) http://goo.gl/gl898
Justin Mitchell (Engineer, FB Photos) http://goo.gl/S3WJ6
Zach Rait (Engineer, Infrastructure) http://goo.gl/dmEhX
Arthur Rudolph (Software Engineer) http://goo.gl/hMEHm
Yariv Sadan (Engineer, Mobile) http://goo.gl/rwPQb
Luke Shepard (Engineering Manager) http://goo.gl/9yMkV
Mike Vernal (Engineer, Platform) http://goo.gl/srRv7

Design
Nathan Borror (Product Designer) http://goo.gl/7j8bf
Eric Fisher (Social Design Strategist) http://goo.gl/RL6U6
Rob Goodlatte (Product Designer) http://goo.gl/X0snH
Drew Hamlin (Product Designer) http://goo.gl/aXGby
Greg Hoy (Design Recruiter) http://goo.gl/fkUJr
Francis Luu (Product Designer) http://goo.gl/wIBKB
Adam Mosseri (Product Design Manager) http://goo.gl/G0g7S

Partner/Developer Relations
Jeff Bowen (Platform Developer Relations) http://goo.gl/uDCWs
Jacqueline Chang (Strategic Partner Manager) http://goo.gl/iiQpM
Andy Katzman (Platform Partnerships) http://goo.gl/dyMnH
Vadim Lavrusik (Journalist Program Manager) http://goo.gl/V3Div
Andy Mitchell (Strategic Media Partnerships) http://goo.gl/pWBHW

Mobile
Erick Tseng (Head of Mobile Products) http://goo.gl/AoMHd

Research
Pete Bratach (Technical Writer) http://goo.gl/VcJV3
Sean Bruich (Monetization Analytics) http://goo.gl/elYmF
Cameron Marlow (Data Scientist) http://goo.gl/oG6sB

Advertising/Marketing
Kevin Colleran (Sales) http://goo.gl/RRUzN
Todd Miner (Head of Sales IT) http://goo.gl/9AVOz
Eric Toda (Ad Ops, Global Marketing Solutions) http://goo.gl/TZY0m

Recruiting
Richard Cho (Recruiting Manager) http://goo.gl/AQlM2

Though not currently at Facebook, cofounders Chris Hughes (http://goo.gl/XWGHD) and Eduardo Saverin (http://goo.gl/0AjO2) also appear to be on G+.

MySpace, your space… where ever

MySpace’s Tom Anderson is not only on Google+, he’s also been helping them, believe or not. His updates often include feedback and feature suggestions that could improve the service!

Twitter too?

Twitter is in on the act as well, one of it’s co-founders, Biz Stone has a Google+ account but, like Zuckerberg, is not yet active.

Conclusion

Who would have thought that along with a Google+ account, you’d get a chance to hear and be heard by those in power?? Especially at a mega monster company like Google itself!

So start creating your Google Employee and Mashable Employee circles and find some other people in power too.