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Google Plus vs. Facebook: Who Will Win In the Battle of Social Networking Sites?
Surely Facebook felt very little guilt when all of Myspace’s fans began ignoring their accounts and started networking by the thousands through Facebook instead, but I wonder how they will feel now that the tides have turned. Pretty soon Google may know exactly what it feels like when Google + takes the world by storm in the very near future. It should not come by surprise that Google is trying to hop on the social networking bandwagon again as they have tried in the past with platforms like Google Buzz and Google Friend Connect. But the new Google attempt at social networking has got a lot of features that it didn’t have before, and a lot of features that Facebook only wishes it could have.
Chatting On Facebook vs. Hanging Out On Google Plus
Why chat with your friends when you can hang out with them right? Well, we never had the option otherwise before Google + but now we have no excuses. Facebook’s cheesy chat area will likely be getting little attention when users discover that Google Plus allows users to video chat with multiple friends at once. What makes the feature super cool though is that you never know who might stop by to “hang out” with you and your friends, so its like being out while having the luxury of staying in. Staying home on a Friday night may just get a little less boring thanks to Google Plus. Sorry Facebook but I think Google won this round…
Facebook Status Updates vs. Google Plus Circle Updates
It’s great being able to update everyone on what is going on in your life but somethings are meant for some to hear and not others. Facebook’s status update section is better than Myspace’s was but the Google Plus Circles updates are going to be a major Facebook update competitor. With Google’s new feature you can update different circles of friends and family with different information. So your friends don’t have to know that your mom made you lunch on any given day and your mom doesn’t have to know that your going to a strip joint that night. Facebook will be hard pressed to compete with a feature like that, and probably wouldn’t even try since “privacy” is an ambigous word to them to begin with.
Facebook Photo Sharing vs. Google Plus Instant Upload
Sharing photos through Facebook is a great way to share your experiences with friends and family but you could send them pictures in the mail by the time you get them uploaded to FB. Google Plus is making it easier by doing all the work for you. With Google + pictures are uploaded instantly so you can post them instantly. Seems like Google + is winning this round too but I guess we will really just have to wait and see.
The preliminary evaluation puts Google + in the lead but until more people are”invited” to try it out we won’t know who the winner is going to be. One thing we can be sure of though is that Google + has already got features that we have been waiting to see.
Written by Leonard, a freelance writer who writes about different web applications, os x antivirus, seo, technology, registry cleaner, hardware and software.
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71 Responses to Google Plus vs. Facebook
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I agree that google plus has got tremendous advanced features that Facebook doesn ot even offer but i still would say that Fb has won the heart of almost every person on this planet.
Perhaps, but not before many months. We will see…
No doubt, Facebook is the granddaddy of social networks. I do agree Google+ have best features than Facebook. I think a proper update from Facebook team which changes interface into users friendly can make it to increase it’s market.
What we shouldn’t forget that people usually are acting in the way that majorities act. So, if Google+ will be able to make a BOOM of their idea and overcome the habits of the users, they will win. Otherwise, facebook will continue rulling the social networking niche. Simply people dont like to be rational at all. Feelings are stronger than various functions that webmasters create.
Well we never hat to option otherwise Google+ but now Facebook is normally easy to making business and chatting Friends and family member otherwise is too easy sharing pictures video and all of us Google+ is awesome but Facebook is too easy for normally people so that’s my thought
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It may be happen in future that google plus dominate social network over facebook.
I thint that Facebook win the battle
I wouldn’t say that google plus is outright bad for your business. I think that it does give some publicity, but may not be as helpful as people anticipated. Still, any publicity is good publicity.
I think the brand value and the cool value will still have facebook win. I regularly use many of google’s services and not a lot of facebook, but I am over 40. I think people who are addicted to facebook are going to be very hard to budge unless opinion leaders and the media can convince everyone to move over.
In the early days only Google was the king over the internet but now since the arrival of face book into internet market it is become very difficult for Google to maintain its position. These days instead of keeping Google as their home page, people like to have face book as their home page. The amount of visitors per day on both of them have almost become the same now.
I dont agree 100% with you about the pricacy on facebook, you can easily make groups and share informations only with them !
Facebook is just too big to compete with, its ecosystem has penetrated almost everything. The only one best feature that Google + does have is circles also called groups differently that, the majority of us wouldnt care. But I bet you Facebook will meet that feature in matter of months.
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Amelie Wakelin
i would take a lot of time for me to completely shift to G+ as most of my friends r not a part of G+ yet due to its age restriction!!!!! so i use G+ but with so many new features also it is boring too due to lack of friendzone.. i still use and prefer FB rather than G+.. a negative side of G+
but i hope after an year or so G+ would be in extensive usage and will have thousands of apps!!!!
Google Plus has a potential of spreading your content and helping you in gaining traffic for your website. More than a social networking site, Google Plus is a information sharing engine. Google Plus can be an effective and useful marketing widget for marketers if they use it carefully.
Facebook is also a social networking site. It provides a better platform to promote your business. It offers a much larger audience and also provides better and easier integration with your website.
Facebook has so many users and I don´t think that they are leaving facebook for google+ as they did with myspace.
I think that mostly seos and admins are taking advantage of google+. A normal user don´t need so many social networks.
Ever here of Falstaff beer. Less than a century ago, it was a company considered to be in the top 3 beer makers in the world. Now they no longer exist. We could mention MySpace too, considering it’s time on top was even more limited, more due to Conservative Republican control than anything else, but we won’t get into that. But internet years are about 1/10 the time of real time years, so by the time people say “What happened to Facebook”, a minute later, they will be saying “What is Facebook.” So all the statements of “here forever” are forgotten just as easily as they are said.
Agree…G+ will make it happen. Because now google bring up results which are associated with g+ and pushing other genuine results to the back. I think g+ with 40 million users will be ready to compete with Facebook wit 800 million and will be a hard fight but users like us will be enjoying the outcome
I thint that Facebook win the battle
Facebook lives a maximum of 10 5-10 years
In today’s unknown social media climate you need to put your eggs in a few baskets because you just can’t be sure where the crowds will go and where you specific crowd is today. my experience has been that twitter has worked best for small business but that might not be everyone’s experience. At the moment i would be everywhere, but focusing on what you understand and can invest time in.
You can visit other social media, or bookmarking sites and not have an account at all, link using your facebook id, and boom they have your information. I think if google+ is going to out do facebook they really need to step it up.