Is Twitter, Facebook or Google The Best Social Networking Site For Your Message Spread? Contd...

BEYOND BOTH: Splitting views into private & public, we do not wish to share all our views to the public, as in Twitter or even to all our followers, as in Facebook. Almost mimicking targeted ads, its system of putting people into circles e.g., friends, family, colleagues etc, & then targeting messages at them gives them full control. Selecting even persons, it mimics emails. Almost reminding us of the free airing of sins to the churchman, this in fact lessens fear & enhances expression. In the stream, while easy editing and not the deleting alone of text errors has greatly helped scribes, the editing of pics has almost made it an arts gallery for keen photographers. More than RT, both visible ‘What’s hot’ & less visible and less used Sparks brings top stories that enhance followings. As if tracing, Digg, its +1 button recommends a story, not just to followers but to the world. With there being nothing called natural search results, it loving its baby & desperately wanting to enhance its growth spurt, Google proudly boasts +1 in its search results & loves sites that have the icon. While this can bring sites to its first page, Google, as a dinosaur of searching species, can convert those results to clicks. Although all have mobile apps it allows real-time group chat. When all is said & done, unlike in others, data can be downloaded & made one’s own. Although its +page, allows firms to express sectors like in Facebook, it’s the less known & rather brashly named ‘Hangout’ that is causing a gold rush like Facebook’s Fan page. Although audio/visual exchange isn’t new, it’s the double screen & real-time interaction with 10 people at a time that makes this special. Giving a sense of all watching in a room, while YouTube video in one & author in the other screen itself gives an anchor effect, live performance even makes one a star. While this made the Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu interact when Chinese weight was too big to allow the Lama entry to the African tip nation, it has made one lady sell records. Furthermore, while power point & other presentations make it a webinar, live corrections of files & their sharing effectively makes it a round table conference. With the addition of ‘it’s free’ makes it ‘God given’ even to atheists with small business & big ideas, the addition of ‘mobile hangout’ erases the ‘held up in traffic’ excuse. While social sites have changed ways of ordinary mortals, going further than this, it is also changing the ways of firm mortals. While it makes Skype marrying Facebook visibly sweat, its need for plug-ins, not large download as in Skype, makes even the latter quietly perspire. Its ‘Google on air’ broadcast could irritate broadcasters. PROBLEMS: All good things aren’t always good. While imagination of Google becoming the all knowing future church can bring fear, both its secretive & freely expressed texts can bring conjugal discontent. Addiction foments another fear. FINALLY Not being a cartel like of petrol, the clash of the titans benefits ordinary mortals & makes them the winners. If, however, I was forced to put my money on 1, I would go for Google plus. But then, if let loose, tracing Warren Buffet, not putting all his eggs in a basket or supermarket’s ‘every little helps’ I would choose all 3 & call myself wise. But then again, the allied app, SGPlus, allows access to the other two right at Google+!! -------------------

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