In class we've watched a debate about if facebook is good or bad and we spoke about the church of google. Now google has created its very own social network to compete against facebook. My question is which one is socially better.
Facebook connects everyone with no real restrictions, if they are your friends, they can see your post. When posting on facebook, you are then posting a status for everyone to see, which in a sense is just a general status update, not directed towards anyone, building, in my mind, no connection to anyone. But the benefit of facebook is that it keeps you in touch with everyone.
Google plus however, created the concept of circles or groups. When adding a friend on google plus, you have the option of adding them to certain circles, giving you the capability to segregate the people you know into different groups of your choosing. The significance of these groups is that when you post on google plus, you must choose which circles can view that post. I believe that these circles will in the long run cause close friends to become closer and far friends to become further. Google plus is very new to the social network, but is this concept better? Or does Facebook still take the trophy of the better social network?
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