SaltyDawg
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One major advantage is you can choose who sees your post, on a post by post basis.
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One major advantage is you can choose who sees your post, on a post by post basis.
SaltyDawg
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I'll try to explain this a little for the people who aren't on Goole + yet.
On Facebook you have a "Friends" list. Google + is not like that. Instead, you put everyone into a "Circle." You can create more circles, and name them whatever you want. And you can put people into as many different circles as you want.
With everything you do, you can choose which circles can view it. And you can view your profile as anyone you want, and see exactly what they would see when they view it.
It's way better than Facebook.
On Facebook you have a "Friends" list. Google + is not like that. Instead, you put everyone into a "Circle." You can create more circles, and name them whatever you want. And you can put people into as many different circles as you want.
With everything you do, you can choose which circles can view it. And you can view your profile as anyone you want, and see exactly what they would see when they view it.
It's way better than Facebook.
DutchJazzer
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facebook also had that since i can remember
Marty McFly
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You can do pretty much that exact same thing with Facebook.
I won't switch until my entire friends list does. I have way too many contacts all over the world on my FB to just ditch my account.
SaltyDawg
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Yeah Facebook has the option to create a friends list, I know about that. It isn't the same thing, and doesn't work the same. All I can tell you is to try it out and you will experience how different it is. And then you'll understand why so many people are switching to Google +.
Chad Feldheimer
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Not anytime soon.
Facebook has 750M users. 2.5 x's the population the US.
On July 14, 2011, Google announced that Google+ had reached 10 million users just two weeks after when it was launched in a "limited" trial phase
SaltyDawg
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Very short amount of time is right. It hit over 10 million users before it was even available for public sign ups and still in beta.
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I already am in trouble with an old friend. He added me as a friend, and I did not add him at all, because frankly I see no real use for Google+. So before I got around to it he sent me a note on facebook wondering what he did to make me mad. Weird. It is becoming the Southpark Facebook episode in real life.
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Frankly, unless you met your entire circle of friends online, and they are all on Google+, and online very frequently, I see no real benefit over FB or just email. I use email and my actual phone to keep up with the people I care about most, the rest are acquaintances and more of a novelty to see what is going on in their lives than anything else.
As far as circles go, I am not that much of an international super-spy to have things I will only share with my "Went to college with this guy 15 year ago" circle, and I don't put any personal info out there that I would constrain entirely to my "Can trust with my deepest darkest secrets" circle. I only add people on FB and Google+ that I care about seeing what is going on with them, or that I have no problem with them seeing what I am willing to share. I guess if your entire life revolves around virtual social communities, and you share enough information that you have some need to constrain who sees what, then Google+ is probably better. For most people I don't think they will see any real difference or benefit from FB.
(I have been on Google+ since the first week, having a friend who works with Google as a project manager)
Beantown
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Yea but Facebook has already died down, so many I know dont even use it anymore. Its not like facebook will get anymore popular. It will be all down hill for them.
As for the Google thing, they just want your personal information so they can charge more for advertising. Seems lame. They should pay you all money since they are making money off your accounts and information.
SaltyDawg
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My family and friends are all scattered across the country. So we use Facebook as a means of staying in touch.
I certainly don't want my boss, or some future potential employer, reading about how drunk I was or something like that. I'm not an international spy either. But everyone on my Facebook and my Google + are people I actually know in real life. So I absolutely do care what they read and see, and don't want everyone reading and seeing everything that gets posted to my wall.
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I guess it doesn't matter much to me whether I use FB or G+ since I filter my posts BEFORE posting it. That seems to make more sense than to hope I only send a particular message to my "Wanna hear my drunken rant" circle and not my "Kiss up to my boss" circle. I also do not add people from work on FB or Google+. If it is truly a friend then maybe, but I see them at work, they don't need to see what I did on the weekend, and for the most part I don't care what they did. I would never add a boss or a subordinate and I do NOT list my place of employment by name, and I do not name co-workers in my posts. That is just begging for litigation. We fired a guy last week because of his Facebook posts, degrading co-workers and his bosses by name and copping to all kinds of things about work, naming names of both the company and specific employees. He posted that he was surprised he passed his drug screen. Also, I am not so narcissistic that I need any of my profiles to be public, so I just make it all private so only my friends can see it. This way I can easily say what I choose to, and keep in touch with my family and friends, without worry of offending anyone or someone snooping and getting information out of my profile. Circles or Friends Lists don't do anything to help me with that, I filter it myself.
The biggest problem with all this is privacy and protection of identity and I protect that by controlling who I add and what I post...period.
The biggest problem with all this is privacy and protection of identity and I protect that by controlling who I add and what I post...period.