Review: Google+

Immediately I let the world know that how privileged I am. I sent few invites to my friends on Facebook and got few requests to send the invite. Overall, it was the day full of curiosity and I was making best of effort to play with it and compare it with other networking sites. The benefits which I am seeing in g+ are as follows:

1-      At the time of adding friends itself, one has the option of adding it into a circle and follow as well. It will save the user from putting extra hours in creating the group. When we add friend in Facebook or get an invite, we don’t have immediate option to assign it to a group, if we are accessing it though our mobile device and there are quite a chance that we may miss to do so, until and unless there arises a pressing requirement. It will further help in micro-targeting our contacts, based on the content and intent of our message. This is what a marketer would be looking for.

2-      You can enjoy all the photo, music, video sharing with all your friends. Moreover, you have plenty of Google apps and products to enhance your social media experience.

3-      One can import Facebook contacts to g+. What you need to do is to open g+, Facebook and Yahoo in either Chrome or Firefox browser. Import your Facebook contacts to yahoo and from g+ gives an option to import contacts from Yahoo.

Negative: If you are so privacy conscious, then privacy clause of g+ reads as follows:

By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.

You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these actions.

But if you are on internet, then you are anyway public, distributed and accessible to everybody. So, it’s better go there all out and enjoy.