Google+ has attained the records of reaching about 10 million users within two weeks of its launch. Seems like, Google+ is making all the attempt to include all the elements to shake the position of Facebook. Well, Facebook also made a record of accumulation of a population of 750 million active users. Now, the question is that can Google+ take on massive competition from the Facebook? Well, everything depends on the pluses of Google+.
Managing your circles
We create different Circles to segregate our acquaintances such as friends, family, work etc. Hence, Google+ has implemented our usual style of socializing to help its users manage contacts better. Facebook friends can see all your posts unless you customize the setting to prevent certain people from seeing your posts. Here, Google+ comes with a different approach to cater to your needs for keeping privacy from certain group or connections. Google+ enables you to create separate Circles for more private interaction with some people apart from main conversation.
How to create ‘Circles’ of life at Google+?
On Google+, you can start with creating four default circles such as ‘Friends’, ‘Family’, ‘Acquaintances’ and ‘Following’. Following include the people with whom you do not interact except reading their feeds such as any website that you ‘Like’ on Facebook to receive and read their news posts. For adding contacts on Google+ Circles, just drag and drop people into specific Circles. You can add same contacts into multiple groups as well, the fun with the Google+ Circles is that connections cannot see the name of Circles. Hence, if you added someone from your Workgroup into another group called ‘Jerks’, they will never know about it. Unlike Facebook, you do not have to wait to include an individual in a group till he confirms requests at Google+. You can simple drag and drop the person to the particular group and later you will be notified when he/she confirms friendship.
Post on Circles – Keep it secret
Now that you have created multiple circles (let’s assume four basic), you must be willing to post something – but whom you want to see and whom shouldn’t see it? As you are going to post anything, just mention which circle to see it, whether you want share it in a single or multiple Circles or simply will make it public for everyone to see. Thus, you can share a new for all, silly jokes for just close friends or celebrate promotion within work group of people.
Video Chat
Inclusion of the facility to video chat is most probably the winning card of Google+ against Facebook. As far as it has been head from people’s reactions, messaging on Google+ is just like ‘Hangout’ with friends as it endows users to interact face to face through video chat. You can continue doing video chat with up to 10 people at the same time. The Google+ version of video chat is free and also works very smoothly without any deterioration in video and sound quality. Google+ also has ‘Sparks’ to spark an interaction by choosing any topic from ten categories or user created categories such as movies, Android, favorite TV show, recipes etc.
