Google has just unveiled Google+, its ambitious answer to Facebook.
It seems Google is eager to make a big impact in the social media sector as in the mail, search, photo and document storage domains.
The Google+ project is the company’s social initiative that brings friend streams, group video chat and group texting to Google’s millions of users.
On Google Plus there are only four silos (Home, Photos, Profile, Circles) to click on. Here one cannot find games nor Farmville! It is simple and in Google’s fashion with lot of white space. The ‘Stream' is the equivalent of FB's scroll newsfeed, and there are similar options — to share, edit, host photos and videos, and delete them.
Unlike Facebook, Google Plus allow people to share things with you even if you're not following them. Thus, you'll want to check your Incoming feed now and then to see whether you're missing out on anything interesting from someone you don't follow.
Use the Your Circles option while sharing. Google Plus's Circles system is great for letting you use your Plus account to set barriers between the various groups of people you want to share things with. If most of what you share on Google Plus isn't especially privacy-sensitive, however, use the Your Circles sharing option to automatically share items with all of your circles and avoid the trouble of clicking each individual circle.
Google+ is a bold and dramatic attempt at social front. There’s a reason why Google calls this a “project” rather than a “product” — they don’t want people to think of this as the final product, but as a constantly-evolving entity.
At the moment, Google+ cannot compete with the king of social, but Google doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to take on Mark Zuckerberg’s giant quite yet.
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