The emerging Google Plus and threating Facebook's throne

The situation so far have not occur any disasters so privacy still stay low as Facebook try to improve its system over time. However, from the day Google announced its newly born child Google+ and invade in to the social networks market. It created chaos everywhere. Used to fail on its attempt on Buzz (it looks like another email inbox personally), Google learnt from its experience and this time it really created a phenomenon. Although the network is in beta period, Google+ had reached 10 million users in only two weeks. This popularity is not only because Google is a famous company specialise in binary search engine but also because it provide a better way to organise friends (thus, better privacy) along with other characteristic of Facebook and other social network. Google+ also known for making networking evolution as it allow users to use online video chat in Hangout which have never been approached by any others. Moreover, using its search engine as a base, its +1 buttons scatter everywhere, allow Google users to add ‘points’ to that site popularity, therefore enhance its searching ability and vice versa.

Apparently, both Facebook and Google+ are competing with each other to gain as much users as possible. At this point, privacy became a vital aspect as nobody want scams on their pages and prevent people from using fake identities to wander around on the net. Take a look at Facebook, through the years: it had been updating its privacy statement. From mid-2010 it had started to apply changes to the page, allowing people to control on what they are sharing even after they tweak their privacy options. This means even you are a friend who is on settings which allow you to read all post, there still be some that hidden from the eye of you by manually set by the button on each post (sadly there no settings for others at this point). A post from CNNTech by Cashmore which listed 10 things that Google does better than Facebook, comparing these two, Google does pretty much the same thing. Circles (Google) are the same to friend groups (Facebook) which if you divide people up into group you can see where did they came from just like Circles’ feature. No offend but those claiming Facebook does not have that feature most likely is because they are too lazy to re-organise their friend list. Things that Google achieved superior to Facebook are group video chat, ad-free and integrated with Google products (such as the search engine). All others are true at the time but Facebook had catch up recently. Ad-free is impossible in Facebook, by all means, it is the main income apart from apps from other business which I suspect Google can keep it totally ad-free or at least the ability to turn them off.