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The only way to beat Facebook is to disrupt this market and rethink the concept of social networking. Regardless of which service is better, G+ is not enough to

The only way to beat Facebook is to disrupt this market and rethink the concept of social networking. Regardless of which service is better, G+ is not enough to make users switch. The problem with G+ is that the sole reason for its existence is to get to access the data that Facebook refuses to share. When that is your starting point, it usually forbears disaster. The article itself is poorly thought out. I doubt that people trust Google that much more than they do Facebook and data portability is a feature that might please some users but it isn't a significant reason to join nor will most people take advantage of it.

herval 14y ago
Please bear with me: what exactly is the data that Facebook refuses to share? As far as I know, apps have access to pretty much ANYTHING they wish (as long as the user grants it)...
- Zimahl 14y ago
  I think he means that Google doesn't have all the information Facebook does and can't leverage that for advertising. For example, you can find someone's Facebook profile through a Google search but if their profile is locked down Google it missing their photos, likes, friends, etc. - stuff that would allow then to tailor their ads just that much better.
Retric 14y ago
G+ has a higher net growth rate than Facebook sustaining that is all it takes to win. Granted, that's hard, but social networks take a while to grow and a while to die, but Google+ supposely has 200 million users vs FB's 900 million and it's far younger. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websi...)
- badclient 14y ago
  Facebook is successful because of its highly engaging product. G+ is kind of like a trust fund kid: it has 200M users because its rich parents(google) decided to aggressively push it to their millions of users. Their 200M user-base says very little about G+ as a product.

herval 14y ago

Please bear with me: what exactly is the data that Facebook refuses to share? As far as I know, apps have access to pretty much ANYTHING they wish (as long as the user grants it)...

Zimahl 14y ago
I think he means that Google doesn't have all the information Facebook does and can't leverage that for advertising. For example, you can find someone's Facebook profile through a Google search but if their profile is locked down Google it missing their photos, likes, friends, etc. - stuff that would allow then to tailor their ads just that much better.

Retric 14y ago

G+ has a higher net growth rate than Facebook sustaining that is all it takes to win. Granted, that's hard, but social networks take a while to grow and a while to die, but Google+ supposely has 200 million users vs FB's 900 million and it's far younger. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websi...)

badclient 14y ago
Facebook is successful because of its highly engaging product. G+ is kind of like a trust fund kid: it has 200M users because its rich parents(google) decided to aggressively push it to their millions of users. Their 200M user-base says very little about G+ as a product.