Google has join the social networking game, by creating Google +. The basis behind Google + is to create small subsets or as Google calls them "Circles", for users to invite friends, family, and coworkers in a small circle where they can share anything and everything, without other circles seeing it.
The one thing that Google + has done is improve the social networking multimedia options, allowing the users to view all the photos that they have uploaded or shared, as well as any photo that they have been tagged in. It goes beyond this though, by allowing users to use different effects on their photos, and enabling them to sent certain photos to different privacy levels.
Google + has also created what they like to call "Hangouts" allowing people to open a video chat and invite people from their groups, telling them they are just hanging out. Takes the typical chat to the next level.
Now if you are still asking what the link is, then here it is. Google + is Google's version of Facebook except it tries to involve their users in different ways. Hangout takes simple chatting to the next level and turns it into video chats that only certain people from circles can see, getting rid of the big group chats that are open to everyone in the group, small or big.
Google + vs Facebook vs Twitter, let the Social Networking battle begin.
*article written by Jesse
Source: Google Plus on Freebase, licensed under CC-BY
Source: http://mashable.com/follow/topics/google-plus/
I have not made a Google + account yet, but my friends who have continued to tell me I should! I hardly check my Facebook as it is. I do not need to add another thing to check! Ironically though, once my friends got Google +, they said it was the best thing in the world, some even deactivated their Facebook account. Now, they all have their Facebooks back up and running and don't really use their Google + anymore. The only conclusion I have to this is because Google + is still not as popular as Facebook. Everyone and their mom has a Facebook, unlike Google +!
ReplyDeleteI believe that it doesn't matter weather you use Google+, Facebook, or Twitter because 5 years from now all three may be out of business for a new social networking site. All they have to do is make one big mistake that will turn users off and then that is the end of that socail networking site.
ReplyDeleteAlso I don't use any of the social networking sites because I belive in traditional means of communication. If we are not careful as a society then the generation after us may loose the ability to communicate face to face.
This is very true, but major companies actually hire people to sit in front of a computer and search the internet and social media sites for people who have applied for jobs in the company. Yes, face to face time is great but now-a-days you can only meet face to face once you get past the automated and internet side of the application.
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