{"id":342,"date":"2011-07-05T21:20:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebguyuk.co.uk\/?p=174"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:26:50","slug":"why-google-isnt-winning-me-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/why-google-isnt-winning-me-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Google+ Isn’t Winning Me Over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I read an article by The New Web about how their users are saying they would leave Facebook to use Google+ instead. You can read it here: stke.info\/lfzsq<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have a Google+ account but I won’t be dropping Facebook or Twitter to use it. Here’s why:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Yet ANOTHER social networking site I need to convince people to join<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me that’s the biggest problem. I have problems trying to convince my friends to use Twitter. Plus will my Mum really want to use Google+? I don’t think it’s as friendly enough for my mum to get along with it. I got in just so I could see what was going on but I don’t think many of my actual, IRL<\/em> friends will want to use this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. What information do I post in which circle?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I’ve got friends in my circles, but now I’ve got to decide which circle I post to! I like Twitter and Facebook because I can share the same information with everyone. If I didn’t want certain people to see it, I simply don’t post it. If you don’t want people to know about it, simply don’t post it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. What do I focus on posting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve got my friends on there and put them in circles and decided what I’m going to post, but what stops me from getting distracted? I like Twitter because those 140 characters keep me to the point and make sure I can’t waffle (unlike this post!). I just think that if I’m going to post on Google+ it’s going to be complete rubbish and irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Will Google+ become a platform for companies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t think so. A company will then need your Google email address and permission for you to be added to a circle, whereas on Twitter & Facebook users don’t have to give any permissions! I might be wrong here but I don’t think it’s a good platform for this kind of interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you hadn’t guessed, I’m not massively into Google+. I just don’t think that the ‘regular, non geeky’ internet users will migrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ONE feature that I might use on Google+ is the Hangouts. I like that you can have up to 10 people with webcam and voices! This is something which Skype currently charges for! (Even then you can only have up to four.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, I will be sticking to Facebook (which I’m using less and less) and Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read an article by The New Web about how their users are saying they would leave Facebook to use Google+ instead. You can read it here: stke.info\/lfzsq I have a Google+ account but I won’t be dropping Facebook or Twitter to use it. Here’s why: 1. Yet ANOTHER social networking site I need to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[82,121,8],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverneedham.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}