{"id":925,"date":"2011-07-01T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T19:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=925"},"modified":"2011-07-01T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T19:39:16","slug":"will-you-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Will you Google + ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  If you read news online you have probably heard about Google +.  The simple explanation of Google + is that it\u2019s like Facebook 2.0, it\u2019s Google\u2019s social networking platform.  Notice I said platform?  It has several applications and a promise of more to come.<\/font><\/p>\n

It is interesting to see what happens.  Facebook is so completely dominant in the social networking world, you wonder what it would take to give them some real competition.  Google has a lot of good things going for it, but social networking isn\u2019t one of them.  Remember Buzz?  How about Wave?  No?  My point exactly.<\/font><\/p>\n

You would think that most people in this country interested in using a social networking service are already doing so.  Of course there are babies being born everyday so there are new users but I think the real meat of the market are the people using sites like Facebook today.  So the $64 question is;<\/font><\/p>\n

Will people with Facebook account use Google+?  Will they abandon Facebook for Google?  Will they maintain 2 sites?  Are they already burned out on friends, invites and status updates so + won\u2019t even get a 2nd look?<\/font><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t get a + account right now, they are in a beta phase and have been overwhelmed with requests for new accounts but you can be notified when they are ready for you.  Granted, it won\u2019t be a lot of use or fun if none of your friends are on it so waiting a little while may be a good choice.<\/font><\/p>\n

I am one of the 16 people in this country who does not<\/em> have a Facebook account.  At first it just wasn\u2019t interesting enough for me, i didn\u2019t go for the \u201cI\u2019m eating lunch\u201d kind of posts.  I preferred the blog version of self expression.  As Facebook got tremendously popular I took a closer look.  I decided I had a few real issues with their strategy, the walling off of content (can\u2019t be searched by outside search engines), the \u201cowning\u201d of your<\/em> content and information and just the overall strategy of \u201cI\u2019m going to get you to tell me as much as you can so I can use\/sell that data whether you like it or not\u201d kinda thing.  I don\u2019t try to discourage people from using Facebook, it\u2019s just why I<\/em> don\u2019t use it.<\/font><\/p>\n

For whatever reason, I don\u2019t get the same vibe from Google.  They have been good to me so far.  Because of this, and my insatiable need to check out new stuff, I  will give + a try.  If you end up doing the same, maybe we can hang out sometime.<\/font><\/p>\n

If you click on the picture you will go to the demo site, click on the little + at the end of the arrows to see some videos talking about the features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

  If you read news online you have probably heard about Google +.  The simple explanation of Google + is that it\u2019s like Facebook 2.0, it\u2019s Google\u2019s social networking platform.  Notice I said platform?  It has several applications and a promise of more to come.<\/p>\n

It is interesting to see what happens.  Facebook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}