Facebook Vs. Google+

Very rarely do I do tech talk with computer related things as a lot of it is lost on me, but I use social networking enough to speak somewhat knowledgeable in this one.

I recently got invited to join Google+, if you are unfamiliar it's a new social networking site designed by Google & will likely rival Facebook. It's got quite the buzz behind it and is slowly catching on. This wouldn't be the first time we've seen the battle of social networks, remember Myspace or Hi5?

After getting the G+ invite I browsed it a little bit, seemed neat but didn't go on it too much. Then finally there was an iphone app for it, that's much more my style since that's where I use FB & Twitter the most. I will admit that I'm not dumping FB as of yet, but one of it's latest changes to their chat system has me thinking about it. FB chat has always been kinda messy, kicking you offline, making other people appear offline, not sending messages. But because I could now talk with all of my FB friends it pretty much killed off MSN Messenger.

But they've changed hands in providers or something as it's at an all time quality low. I can now only view a handful of people who are online and messages don't seem to send all that well. Given FB's history of making changes and not giving a damn about what it's users think, I'm not surprised by this. However, this time around there's a new kid in town, Google+. It only has a small following at this point, but I kinda feel this one is gonna take off and gonna give FB a run for it's money. For people who use Gmail, it'll integrate well with it! Puts everything in one place for you. It's outlook is similar to FB, but now you have circles. Circles of friends, acquaintances, co-workers. Now that NSFW post you wanna share with your friends and not with the boss is possible by selecting the groups of people you want to share things with.

I'm going to follow the progress of G+, I think it's got some good promise and it's only in the beta testing stage. If you get a chance check it out! G+ movie in the works? Maybe too soon......