{"id":467,"date":"2011-07-12T01:38:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T01:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2012-03-19T02:40:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T02:40:14","slug":"techtrends-will-google-replace-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/techtrends-will-google-replace-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"TechTrends: Will Google+ replace Facebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google’s second attempt at social networking, Google+<\/a>, is being met with mixed reviews at best.\u00a0 Right now, it’s being field tested by a small number of users, with a full rollout expected soon.\u00a0 I happen to be one of those users, so here are my initial impressions of the latest social media\u00a0offering.<\/p>\n

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For the most part, there aren’t enough extras to entice me away from Facebook right now.\u00a0 The main difference between the two\u00a0is that Google+ promises to make your social networking experience more personal.\u00a0 Circles<\/a> allow you to group and categorize all of your friends, so that you only share info\/photos\/etc. with the folks you really want to share them with.\u00a0 Hangouts<\/a> allow you to video\u00a0chat with multiple friends at once, one of the few features I\u00a0found to be really cool.\u00a0 But with Facebook just\u00a0recently partnering with Skype, that feature can’t be far behind.\u00a0 Sparks<\/a> utilize Google’s powerful search engine to send you links\/updates\/info\u00a0on things you might be interested in, and folds in your friends recommendations as well.\u00a0 There’s also an element of Twitter, wherein you can “follow” posts of people you\u00a0may not know well, but whom you find interesting.<\/p>\n

Overall, there’s not enough there right now to make me jump ship, but I guess it’ll be like anything else – if Google is able to convince people that everyone else is doing it, it just may take off.\u00a0 But with most people already on multiple social networking sites already (I’m on four), that’ll\u00a0take some serious convincing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Google’s second attempt at social networking, Google+, is being met with mixed reviews at best.\u00a0 Right now, it’s being field tested by a small number of users, with a full rollout expected soon.\u00a0 I happen to be one of those users, so here are my initial impressions of the latest social media\u00a0offering.Read More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[97,110,109,111,6,28,4,24],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-more-link","post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech-life","category-techtrends","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-stephanie-humphrey","tag-tech-life-2","tag-technology","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}