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IMO Facebook is not in any great danger from Google plus. Smaller start ups maybe, but Facebook has the not-tech-savvy market by the balls and google plus certa

IMO Facebook is not in any great danger from Google plus. Smaller start ups maybe, but Facebook has the not-tech-savvy market by the balls and google plus certainly isn't going to take them away. My brother, sister and father all use Facebook, none will be switching to google plus unless all their friends do, their friends won't switch unless their friends do... the Myspace/Facebook comparison doesn't work either, a large portion of Facebook users now didn't ever use Myspace, it's not as if they've moved away. Myspace was popular in the era where social networking was for teens and "nerds", Facebook rose to popularity when social networking was for everyone, google plus can't just waltz in and take all those users. Google plus is just another tech industry circle jerk, it'll be a long time before it ever comes close to harming Facebook (if it does). How many people are using google plus and not Facebook? That's what matters most. Everyone I know who uses google plus (which is a small group) is still using Facebook.

samuel1604 15y ago
at least Linus torvald
troymc 15y ago
It's not like you have to choose Facebook xor Google+. You can use both. For me, it's looking like I'll use Facebook to keep up with old schoolmates and relatives, and I'll use Google+ for keeping up with other circles (e.g. photographers and tech reporters). TV didn't kill radio.
- phyllotaxis 15y ago
  [Quote]TV didn't kill radio[\quote] Nope, but the internet is. (i work in radio, BTW) Can't happen soon enough, if you ask me.
joshmlewis 15y ago
I agree. I was thinking about it and even if I wanted to use Google+ I couldn't just because there are so many people I have connections with that don't even realize it exists and they won't switch till there friends switch.
pyman 15y ago
I think all of the complaints about Facebook policies have finally caught up with the company. Respecting your privacy is not about allowing users to create private groups or circles. It's about respect. When you sign up to a service offered by a company and accept its terms and conditions, you expect that company to respect those terms and conditions, but if those terms and those conditions keep changing all the time, people are going to be pissed off. I noticed this with people who have looked at and reviewed Google+. They all make a comment about how the privacy settings are better or easier to access or less intrusive. This small factor is almost always mentioned, including in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y
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ugh 15y ago
I have seen a big switch from one social network to another one before: from StudiVZ to Facebook. StudiVZ is a very competent and very early (launched long before Facebook entered the German market) German Facebook clone, it has some nice features former StudiVZ and current Facebook users are still missing. Everyone and everyone's friends were on StudiVZ. Now everyone is on Facebook (everyone is also still on StudiVZ but it's not really used). The transition happened gradually but all it took in my social cirlce were some people to try it out and invite everyone else. The action shifted gradually from StudiVZ to Facebook in the following months. The same hasn't yet happened to Google+, at least in my social circle. (It also took Facebook a few months, I would comsequently not read much into that.) But it might very well. The StudiVZ story leads me to believe that switches from one social network to another aren't as impossible as it seems. (Replacement is also only one of several scenarios. Co-existance is possible, I think.)
beatpanda 15y ago
I don't know, all my friends already switched to Google+, and none of them are particularly tech savvy (outside of being young enough to have been raised with the Internet).

samuel1604 15y ago

at least Linus torvald

troymc 15y ago

It's not like you have to choose Facebook xor Google+. You can use both. For me, it's looking like I'll use Facebook to keep up with old schoolmates and relatives, and I'll use Google+ for keeping up with other circles (e.g. photographers and tech reporters). TV didn't kill radio.

phyllotaxis 15y ago
[Quote]TV didn't kill radio[\quote] Nope, but the internet is. (i work in radio, BTW) Can't happen soon enough, if you ask me.

joshmlewis 15y ago

I agree. I was thinking about it and even if I wanted to use Google+ I couldn't just because there are so many people I have connections with that don't even realize it exists and they won't switch till there friends switch.

pyman 15y ago

I think all of the complaints about Facebook policies have finally caught up with the company. Respecting your privacy is not about allowing users to create private groups or circles. It's about respect. When you sign up to a service offered by a company and accept its terms and conditions, you expect that company to respect those terms and conditions, but if those terms and those conditions keep changing all the time, people are going to be pissed off. I noticed this with people who have looked at and reviewed Google+. They all make a comment about how the privacy settings are better or easier to access or less intrusive. This small factor is almost always mentioned, including in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-llwYjxv8Y

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ugh 15y ago

I have seen a big switch from one social network to another one before: from StudiVZ to Facebook. StudiVZ is a very competent and very early (launched long before Facebook entered the German market) German Facebook clone, it has some nice features former StudiVZ and current Facebook users are still missing. Everyone and everyone's friends were on StudiVZ. Now everyone is on Facebook (everyone is also still on StudiVZ but it's not really used). The transition happened gradually but all it took in my social cirlce were some people to try it out and invite everyone else. The action shifted gradually from StudiVZ to Facebook in the following months. The same hasn't yet happened to Google+, at least in my social circle. (It also took Facebook a few months, I would comsequently not read much into that.) But it might very well. The StudiVZ story leads me to believe that switches from one social network to another aren't as impossible as it seems. (Replacement is also only one of several scenarios. Co-existance is possible, I think.)

beatpanda 15y ago

I don't know, all my friends already switched to Google+, and none of them are particularly tech savvy (outside of being young enough to have been raised with the Internet).