Ramblings Of An All-Around Role Model
Done With Google +, Almost…

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I love networking. I do it all the time. I use Twitter, Facebook and Google +. I think they are all great in their own unique way, but recently I have found less of a use for Google +. I thought it was absolutely amazing when it first started out. The privacy concepts of were amazing allowing you to share with specific people and not just your entire network. Certainly made sharing private photos easier than it normally would be under the Facebook design. Certainly seemed like Google + was the next best social medium. Until Facebook did the predictable and transformed into Google + within the next few weeks. Naturally, this is how competition works. You either keep up with your competitors or you get left behind. 

Facebook started implementing the same privacy features as Google, and Google started adopting the same page features as Facebook. So eventually, there was no way to differentiate between the two mediums. Although there really isn’t much of a difference between the two, most people still like Facebook more. I'm afraid I’m behind the Facebook camp as well, although I still think Google + is great. 

The amount of people using Facebook doesn’t necessarily sway me, but my reasoning can be summed up in a few points:

  • Easier For Networking: I use apps on my phone everyday. And those apps are easily integrated on my Facebook pages and Facebook profile. Google + doesn’t share such a feature so it makes it hard for me to network.
  • Not Many Influencers: Hardly anyone influential uses Google +. I’m not saying that Google + should be filled with celebrities like Twitter or Facebook. But it’s hard to network and create meaningful content when your entire timeline is filled with people just posting GIFs images, photos and news articles that you are not really interested in.
  • Immediate Network Uses Facebook:  All of my friends and family are on Facebook.Although I have said that the amount of people using a particular medium doesn’t dictate which is more successful, I enjoy sharing my content with people who are close to me as oppose to people who are only around just to gawk at me.

Not too many reasons why I choose Facebook over Google, but it’s enough reasons for me. I’ll still use Google plus, as it adds to my influence some of my friends are on Google +, but I don’t think I’ll be posting anything particularly meaningful there.