Ok that title may be a little overboard, and honestly I am not going to pretend whether I know if Google Plus is going to fail or not. Everyone seems to have an opinion on what Google Plus is going to do to Facebook and how Facebook could be in trouble blah blah blah.. Here are some of the things being said in regards to Google Plus that I believe are myths and my explanations as to why.
Myth #1 Google Plus is going to do to Facebook what Facebook did to Myspace. Ok there is no doubt Myspace was the king for a while until Facebook came around and pushed them out of the picture. But Myspace had a terrible layout and no new creativity when it came to building on their initial success and huge community. Facebook is not and does not rest on their laurels; and they are always looking to improve their product. As a leader in the Industry, Facebook seems to be committed to building on their success.
Myth # 2 Everyone is going to switch to Google Plus - We all get excited when we hear big numbers like Google Plus has one hundred million users within two months Facebook has five million users so on so forth but out of all the million of new Google Plus users how many were social media people, marketing, small businesses, SEO’s etc . There is no doubt Google Plus is going to be or already is factoring in Google’s algorythm but not every person is a small business or has to rank their website. How many people in your circle do not have a reason to join Google plus other than utilizing a different social network? I can tell you based on the numbers from my Facebook page that a very small percentage have joined Google plus and those who have joined Google plus zero percent have switched to Google plus only adding it to their social network repertoire.
Myth # 3 Google Plus is a better product This is Google’s third attempt at social and does their product look strikingly similar to another social network? Yes it basically is a clone of Facebook with hangouts. Certainly Google Plus has tweaked things with their circles to easily categorized friends and is a whole lot less awkward when people ask to be in circles(friends) but I believe Facebook will learn and readjust their layout now they have a little competition breathing down their neck.
I do believe there is room both for Facebook and Google Plus to coexist and unless Google Plus really comes up with something extraordinarily to build on their platform I don’t foresee Facebook suffering any long-term defection from their loyal users.
So tell me your thoughts. Do you think Google Plus will fail or succeed and why? Oh and just in case Google Plus is a huge success you can plus me here
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I do believe that google plus will succeed because of the many platforms that Google has to expand it gradually. Google has learned from the past projects big time and this time around Google can dethrone the king of social networks. This won’t be easy but again, they have all other platforms that Facebook doesn’t, so they have the edge.
I think it should be called google minus. It might get some kind of initial traction, but I think the are sitting up and taking notice that facebook is the most visited site. That’s kind of a big deal to google I will imagine.
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If they do the rollout of business profiles properly, it will definitely put a hole in the blogging universe. If that happens, it will succeed mightily, as it’s already a great SIMPLE blogging platform. I just don’t want to use it that way with my circles getting all public posts. As soon as I can blog under one or more of my business entities, saving my circles for more targeted posts, it’s going to be huge.
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We are only just starting to use Google+ as a social media tool and hope that it will be beneficial. We use Facebook and have a business page, but have yet to see really great results with it so far, but have recently hired an SEO company, so hopefully they will be able to help us out so we can maximise our 700+ followers. I would guess that since Google has failed twice before, and this is their 3rd attempt at social media, that they will not fail this time around. Overtaking Facebook is another matter altogether, and it will be a tough battle to catch up with 750 million+ users!
I also believe it will succeed as one of the top Social Media, they will succeed if facebook continue their almost every week changes in their privacy and etc. I just signed up at Google Plus last week but didn’t enjoyed it much as of the moment. I guess I don’t have friends still, that’s why. One more thing I didn’t like about Google+, they doesn’t have this user interface that attract more users to switch from, unlike with facebook.
Somebody invited me to join Google Plus few months ago and until now I haven’t joined this social networking site. I don’t really see any reason why I need to join the site since I’m not even active in my Facebook account unless I play FB games LOL, same thing with the other networking accounts I have like Myspace. So being a member of Google Plus is not really an option to me.
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Today Google + is the most successful social media. All of online pioneers are focusing towards Google +.
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