Cody from FroogleGeek wrote:
"I am sure by now many of you have already read about Google’s next attempt at stealing some of the social networking pie away from Facebook. For those of you who were not aware, Google has created yet another social network dubbed Google+ which is very awkward to end a sentence on. The only thing is that this time I will stop using Facebook and move over to Google+ when I get my invite. This is something I’ve never done before, I didn’t try Google Buzz and I’ve never been a part of Orkut. In fact for a while I ditched the dream of wanting to work at Google and hoped to one day work at Facebook. However over the past couple of months my feelings about Facebook as a company have changed and I just wanted to create this article giving my reasons for leaving Facebook once I can use Google+."
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I feel like a good intellectual discussion. At least a somewhat centralized one since there are a ton of articles on it, lol.
I think I have to respectfully disagree with some of your article. I agree in that Google + looks promising, especially broadcasting to certain groups of people is what really appeals to me (Although, I sort of do this already with some private Facebook groups I'm involved in). But I'm not sure I share the same sentiments as you. I can agree with you in that Google + will be excellent, but I'm not sure I would drop Facebook simply because of that. Especially since a lot of people I know wouldn't likely join, at least for a very long time. I maintain that this will likely remain a niche product for a while, but I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.
The article seem to be under the assumption that Facebook will stay stagnate and won't add features in the near future. Unless you are saying that given Facebook's speed in the past to add features is fairly slow is a disadvantage for them. In that case, I'd agree with you, aside from the fact that for a while Facebook hasn't really had a competitor really be able to take them on.
If Facebook ever found Google a threat in the future, I'm sure they would come up with competitive features. So perhaps it would be best to judge them again in about a year or so. Even so, implementation of similar features might not be so hard. As an example, you can already tweak who sees an individual status. While at this point it is a little convoluted, you can have your status appear to only certain friends and/or networks. They just need a way to make it simple. Like the example you made about talking about college parties and all, you can have a status appear to only your network of people.
The good thing about Google + is that they seemed to have successfully made it simple to do.
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Facebook HUDDLE alone will eatup facebook and skype put together,
I can tell my whole family to go with google plus+ because it's so easy to use out of the box with webcam vs Skype. And Facebook? Webcam? not even close to multiple chat yet!
Google+ is going to the reason why I am finally going to like The Social Network.
Pipe dream. Nothing is dethroning Facebook anytime soon. People are assuming that most care about deep social networking features. Most on Facebook dont care, its "lemme post this pic then get back to Farmville", thats it. THey dont care if more than a few people see a certain pic or read a certain message. They just dont care.
Facebook is just too deep seeded into everyones lives now to change, you'll see.