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On today's article I will share some thoughts on Google+, Twitter and
Facebook. From the three, personally I like Facebook and twitter the best,
Google+ is a distance 3rd.
When Facebook first started, for me and a lot of people it was new, exciting and
lots people were joining up. I was rediscovering old friends and making new
connections. I still use it daily keeping in touch with friends, what they are
doing and so on. I am pretty sure most check their Facebook account moreso than
their actual email account.
My introduction to twitter was mainly due to many annoyances with unwanted
Facebook updates. As a result, I now use both Twitter and Facebook equally. But
I use each for different means. I strictly keep Facebook for my personal life
and not try to associate work with all that much. Some people like to
incorporate work with Facebook, but for me all I can keep separate. While I do
have a work Facebook account that is connected with my personal.
With Twitter and Facebook people can easily incorporate both for many personal
and business uses, where one is complementing the other. There are enough
differences between Twitter and Facebook that they are proving to work together
into people’s everyday life, and business’s are interested in where the people
are. Many businesses and people are on both Twitter and Facebook and actively
using them and updating, reading and so on. It has become part of their daily
social life, especially with their mobile smart phones.
With Twitter, I accidentally discover many new and interesting things, moreso
than searching on Google these days. For myself, it is showing to be a great way
to find new and interesting things that people are sharing. Plus, the quickness
of the updates with Twitter on news items is top notch, much quicker than Google
News. I tend to use Twitter as a I would With an RSS feed page. I have
topics/categories for some items/news sources I like to keep track of, and using
it this way for myself helps keep twitter under control from the constant tweets
that are never ending.
With Google+, I personally find that they are trying to re-create a combination
of Twitter or Facebook. With a lot of people I know, Twitter or Facebook is
enough for their personal and daily use. That initial excitement that Facebook
and Twitter had doesn’t seem to be there with Google+. Curiosity on Google+,
sure. I know Many of my personal friends are most likely not going to have a
Google+ account or if they do have one they won’t be checking in as much as with
Facebook or Twitter.
With Google+ even though it is for me the most annoying of the top three social
sites, is one that we cannot avoid. Google+ has now been incorporated into
Google results, that is the big game changer. It is essentially forcing many
businesses to sign up to start pushing Google+ business pages. It will be very
interesting after a year to see how Google+ has grown compared to twitter
Facebook and to see if it has captured the social eyes of the audience as
Facebook and twitter have currently done so.
Some of my annoyances with Google+. On the iPhone, the Google+ app show’s the
first few comments from everyone's post, and this is extremely annoying when
people posts a mini novel, especially when I’m not interested in what their
comment is and its spammy. I would like to have the option to see the comment if
I want. Also finding people/business’s/products is a much easier process (for
myself) with Facebook and Twitter. What I do like about Google+ is that from the
some of the main companies/people that I am following, they are not just copying
from Facebook/Twitter updates, but coming up with different and more extensive
and interesting updates.
I initially wrote this article with my iPhone Siri. Needless to say, there
were some funny corrections I had to make, but it is enjoyable that the world we
live in becomes more Star Trek like.
Thoughts of G! A Siri Article Edition
- Posted Thursday January 19, 2012
Gerard Manning
SEO Services Canada
Website Marketing by Manning
Search Marketing
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