I will never let anyone know I am actually a dog.
OOPs.
I will never let anyone know I am actually a dog.
OOPs.
I see a “We do what we blanking well please!” sort of arrogance to both Google and Facebook. And both came out of nowhere with all the resources needed to top established services. They give me the creeps.
I actually have a Google+ account. The format is cleaner than FB, and I don’t feel like I’m playing “Whack-A-Mole” with privacy settings that constantly change. The lack of obnoxious, irrelevant ads is very nice...as long as that lasts. There aren’t a whole lot of people on the service at the moment and it feels very quiet.
Yeah, but can you play Scramble on Google+?
So where does Linkedin fit in? Was their IPO too high?
Facebook’s problem is that their basic premise - that of people “friending” each other is fundamentally flawed. The Twitter model - that of “following” is more inline with how people interact. If A follows B and B follows A that equals (more or less) Facebook “friending” but in real life a lot more people are going to want to follow, say LeBron James, then LeBron James is going to want to follow.
Facebook’s other problem is that it has too many odd glitches - things don’t always work just right.
Twitter’s problem is that it doesn’t support multimedia as well as Facebook - but this may nor may not be a major flaw.
Google Plus will have more flexible following/friending rules than either Twitter or Facebook and will be more multimedia friendly than Twitter. I predict the two survivors will be Twitter and G+ and that Facebook will recede in terms of importance.
Google+ is a stupid name. You can’t type in “+” in the url line. It will confuse many