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  1. Tom Petrocelli
    August 2, 2011

    G+ comes across to me like an enhanced Twitter and less like FB. The key difference between Twitter and Facebook is how the social interactions work. FB is designed to limit social interactions to those you choose. For this reason, you have to accept a friend request. Twitter is open. Anyone can follow you unless you explicitly block them. Even then, your tweet can be retweeted to someone you have blocked (I think).
    G+ allows you to add someone to a circle who hasn’t given you permission. You can consign them to a circle that you don’t share with but that’s not the default behavior. Judging by the limited activity I’ve seen on G+, people are using it more like twitter than like FB anyway.
    One thing to note, G+ is saying they have already accumulated a large user base. What the haven’t said is how many have been posting and the volume of posting. I see a lot of people who sign up but don’t post anything. Both Twitter and FB have enormous volume. from a revenue point of view, what’s more important is how much time people sit with their eyes glued to a social media site. If I had to guess, I would think that G+ is tiny compared to FB, LInkedIn, or Twitter.

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    • admin
      August 2, 2011

      Tom,

      Thank you for your comment. You make some good points. However, our views are a bit different on G+. I find G+’s comment and layered response layout inefficient and find it much harder to find desired content vs Twitter. In short, it is hard to separate the desired content from the noise. To me, this approach is more akin to Facebook where people write on walls and then responses are layered underneath. Neither of these are as good as the short 140 character responses on Twitter, IMO.

      I agree with G+ growing user base growing and think that it is a reflection of shiny new toy syndrome. (I bet that Wave’s user base grew fast too!) The real question is whether people will adopt it and make it part of their lives as many have already done with FB, LI and Twitter or whether usage will decline over time as people move to other platforms.

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      • Tom Petrocelli
        August 2, 2011

        Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that G+ is a better Twitter, quite the contrary. I like how the 140 character limit forces brevity. God knows I benefit from that. I also agree that it’s commenting looks more like FB. It’s the social model that makes it more like Twitter than LinkedIn or FB. The point of FB and LinkedIn is that you share with select people, not the world. It doesn’t always work that way but that is the goal. G+ models the Twitter method of broadcast to the world unless you specifically restrict it.
        In the end, that renders G+ as social publishing ala Twitter rather than social networking like FB and LinkedIn.

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