Will Google+ Kill Facebook?

Sounds like an interesting alternative. The idea of circles is smart. It is, as you say, like real life. The one thing that I would like to see added is the possibility of copy-protection on pictures, so people could look at pictures in your albums, without being able to take copies. This would stop redistribution of private material.

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I am hearing about Google+ for the first time. Face book has to work now to continue to occupy a prime place in our social interaction.

I have no doubt that Google+ is going to generate huge fellowship.

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And with Google's past history regarding privacy issues, people think this is a cool idea?

I haven't tried Google+ yet (no invite), but I know the key features that I WANT to see there, and which would induce me to switch if they were present. First, a service ethic; Facebook's user interface is dismissive. If it isn't in the Help system, too bad - there's no way to communicate directly with Facebook staff, even on a one-way basis. Second: privacy and respect for users' intellectual property; that means no claim of ownership of the user's data, and no use of that data without the user's explicit permission. Third: security; I have just had the experience of somebody hijacking my Facebook account and posting an announcement of a p**n/snuff video on my friends' wall in my name. Many others have had the same thing done to them. I do not, repeat, do not give out my password to anyone...period, so it isn't "user error" or falling for a phishing email. Somebody has a back door into Facebook, and Facebook seems to be ignoring it.
Anyway, I know I'm probably dreaming here, but if Google were to credibly address those three concerns I would move to Google+ along with as many of my friends as I could induce to follow me there.

Bob Rankin observes, "Does Google+ have any hope of displacing Facebook... it seems possible. Many users are fed up with Facebook's complexity, privacy and security concerns, and the company's claims to own all users' uploaded data."
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Facebook is a continuous tangle of privacy concerns. While these may not end with Google+, they probably will diminish considerably because of the essential Google+ difference-- the product was actually designed for discreet publishing of personal connections.

In contrast, an increasing number have begun to turn away from Facebook because it was never designed to do more than one thing-- publish to marketers our private relationships. Those marketers made Mark Zuckerberg $13.4 BILLION richer, and he surely is crippled by remorse all the way to the bank about our privacy problems with Facebook.

Many have been reluctant to use Facebook because of its loyalty to marketers over Facebook users. Google+ promises to be more attentive to user concerns, and depending on what they find, may decide to try Google+.

The great irony is Google made its fortune as a non-intrusive service to marketers, but Facebook is all set to lose its popularity (and assets)-- all because it placed its allegiance with marketers, and alienated users. Had Facebook become known over its development for assiduous attention to privacy, Facebook might have a more assured future.

Hmm, Google+ does sound like a good alternative. I for one hardly use facebook anymore. ever since I found out about the privacy issues it invokes, I have been reluctant to use it. If Google+were address those privacy concerns and actually attempt to eradicate them, then I would move to Google+ I especially like the idea of Circles; it does seems alot like real life.

Hi Bob.

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I've found about a product called Tulalip, and (maybe) it is the response of Microsoft for Facebook and Google+

http://newsinabox.net/1680/tulalip-the-microsoft-s-alternative-to-google-and-facebook.html

Google Plus has hangouts where people can video chat with multiple friends in one go! Facebook has yet to match this feature! Facebook only has been able to implement group chats but certainly not video chats with multiple users within one chat. Right now there are 750 million users on Facebook and they are happy to use Facebook services, whereas Google Plus is going to need to pull people off of Facebook, wean them off and convince them that Google plus has better features and functions that beat those on Facebook. That's the only way they can get people to come and use their services rather than the big boy Facebook.