Conclusion

Until today, Facebook had done quite a jump in privacy settings in order to compete with Google+. The fact that Facebook is a solely a social network and become successful with more than 500 millions of users up till now had some what effect on Google popularity. Furthermore, some people also believe that search engines such as Google search are drifting to the land of uncertainty. They believe people are turning to social network to find the answers for their problems. Personally, this is so wrong. Search engines do their works to find as much as possible things that most relevant to the questions or queries while social network do … what was that again? The answer is nothing. Indeed you can rely on the network if you do have some geeks or nerds friends. However, the answers are definite and not that they know everything. Not to mention we have to wait until they reply. Just imagine Google was to be born before Facebook, even without group video chat feature, Facebook cannot possibly hope to stand a chance against Google with social network functions along with a huge integration with Google maps, Youtube and Google search. However, the reality is Facebook already in fast growing rate even at the time Google was introduced. Its long time establishment help it to stand against Google without further effort other than the ever-ending privacy issue. To justify this objectively and correctly, let’s look at the talk with Danah Boyd on “Making sense of privacy and publicity”. She address that the expose of privacy is inevitably how much you are trying do to keep it low and that we never know if people who were told will not spill the bean. She also said the problem is depending on us of how we depict “privacy and publicity”. Unfortunately, according to her, when she asks people of privacy setting she did not aware whether the person who was asked is aware of the matter or not. As a matter of fact, every Facebook account is originally public. The users will have to change their own privacy setting. It is not Facebook fault that people believe their content is ‘private’ all the time. Apart from this, her thoughts are much appreciated.

Facebook and Google (as I know) were once on the progress of trying to co-operate. Well, at least Google was thinking about that and it is a fact that Facebook is not going to be acquired by Google. However, Facebook refer Microsoft investment of 1.6% stake over Google offer. Still, it is not because of the deal that they are rivals at the moment. Vogelstein explains that the different is the system. Facebook is more of a humane nature whereas Google is on the algorithm side. Beside, personal privacy is going to be a difficult problem for developer as people (most of them) expects them to cope with their demand. It going to be a holy war I promise. Not between Google and Facebook but users and developers.