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I’m guessing most of you reading this will have already gotten their Google+ invite and has already signed up for it. I’m also guessing that some of you are refusing to sign up for yet another social network/sharing site and I don’t blame you, I have Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus all open at the same time. If you are holding back from signing up then I suggest you accept the next invite you receive.
Why To Sign Up for Google Plus?
When social networks and other social websites first emerged they were in their early stages, and us as the users were “noobs” to the online social world. As the social networks advance, it seems that we do too. When Facebook and Twitter arrived, things really took off, everyone from my little brother to my grandmother was on a social network of some sort. This brought with it a whole new set of “noobs” that had to learn what was right and wrong on these social networks.
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Nowadays I rarely use Facebook, it’s good to keep up with family and distant friends every now and then, but when I look at my feed/wall I mainly see boring and very same-y status updates. The same goes with Twitter, but it’s not as bad because the people that do this I unfollow without offending anyone.
When Google Plus came along a couple of weeks ago, I was very hesitant to sign up, I though that if it did ever become as popular as FB and Twitter then it would just end up being just as bad as Facebook for the generic and boring status updates. I signed up anyway and so far I have been pleasantly surprised.
The Concept of Circles is Cool!
Things started out quiet for the first few days as I gathered people into my circles, but I now have a reasonable amount of people in my circles and I am surprised by how little spam and generic status updates there are… I am following a lot of professionals including game and web developers, but still my feed is filled with useful info and a lot of fun.
Maybe it’s just because the masses haven’t hit the social network yet, but so far Google Plus is definitely a step in the right direction as far as social networks go.
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Quite agree, FB feels outdated compared to G+. It will be interesting to see how it develops
You said right mahesh because Circle is the + in google+
i want acount in google plus