Amanda Blain

Amanda Blain (born May 30, 1980) is a CEO, speaker, blogger, and Internet personality from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is best known for Google Plus, where she has over 2.6 million followers and is the number 1 most followed Canadian. She is also the CEO and web developer of Girlfriend Social.

Girlfriend Social
In 2009, Amanda designed, developed, and launched Girlfriend Social, a female friendship website. The webpage allows women in USA, Canada, UK and Australia to meet new friends and has over 50,000 members as of May, 2011.

"Although there are many social networks online, most are designed to deal with business networking, dating, or connecting with people you already know," Blain said in an interview. "There are very few sites that connect new friends or that are for trying out new hobbies."

Girlfriend Social was voted "Favorite Website for Meeting New Friends" by About.com readers in their Readers' Choice Awards in 2012.

Google Plus
Amanda joined Google Plus on its first day of official beta, June 29, 2011. She was placed on Google's Suggested User List under the technology category on December 15, 2011.

Blain is known for speaking about and promoting the platform. "Google+ is a true Social Media platform. I spent my time there commenting on other threads, sharing and engaging in conversations… not just talking about myself and my business." She frequently posts about geek topics people can relate to like Zombies, Video Games, Canada, Game Of Thrones and Technology.

A frequent user of the hangouts feature on the Google Plus platform, Amanda was voted by the community as "Number 1 Hangout User" in June, 2012. Blain states that she has met hundreds of people in real life after meeting virtually in a hangout first. Amanda is the 35th most followed person and the 15th most followed female on Google plus as of August 20, 2012.