Google+ and Facebook share many things in common, but both allow users to do many different things as well. These two social medias target an audience who want to consume and share information quickly with their friends and family, but which of these two websites should you choose though?
I am figuring that, out of the two social medias, people are choosing Facebook. Why else would Google+ need to make a commercial marketing their website? I am almost 100% positive that I have never seen a Facebook commercial, I even checked out YouTube just in case and came out empty handed. The commercial above shows the basic concept behind Google+ and the use of 'circles' that you put your friends and family in. The circles allow us as the users to separate our friends from people who aren't really our friends into circles (which you can name anything you want) and share specific information with the different groups. The commercial for Google+ beautifully shows how easy it is to switch people from circle to circle, I'm happy to know that Kyle has a car and got to eventually move from the creeper circle to the keeper circle.
Both Facebook and Google+ started out the same way by letting only certain people join the website. Facebook only allowed people with an university e-mail address and Google+ only allowered people who had invites. This puts the websites at a certain "demand" because not just anybody could join. Now, both websites allow anybody to join, all you need is an Internet connection.
The chart above shows the basic components of Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. According to this chart, Facebook is the easiest of the three to use and to share all of your information.
Both of these social medias offer us the same thing. Now, Facebook offers you the ability to put your friends in groups and share specific information, Facebook also allows their users to video chat. Now... what's so special about Google+? The one thing that it has different is the 1+ feature that you're able to use to basically "like" a website. Google+ will then automatically share it for you combining your Internet surfing and social needs all at once. But what's the point of the simplicity if no one else is on Google+ to read it?
So, as far as I can see... Facebook is the winner of this challenge. Google+ has a long road ahead of it to build the fan base that Facebook has so easily built and kept. I also see that you should follow me on Twitter ... i'm lovelylace86! That's what all of this social media is for anyawy... promoting yourself!
I agree that Facebook is better. I know people who switched over to Google+, and after the first buzz and excitement wore off most people abandoned it. I think it is hard to start up a competing cite to something that has been well established on the Internet. Just look at Bing. They ran all those commericals and tried to convince people to switch to them, and google didn't even sweat. This was a good comparsion. I especially liked the graph, that laid out your arguements very clearly.
ReplyDeleteI tried Google+ for a little while, myself. Didn't like it. Its website was hard to reach; I always had to search for it. On top of that, I didn't know a single person who used it, either.
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