I have a Love-Hate relationship with Google Plus. I’ve been using it for a few months now as it has slowly added more features. I really like the concept of circles, where you can segregate the people you follow into individual groups. I like the fact that it ties in real well with Google, Gmail, and the Chrome browser.
What I don’t like is that it is number four!
You see, I already have three social networks that I follow.
I have Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, thank you very much.
I like how they work and I feel comfortable with them.
I don’t need a fourth network to mess with. I really don’t have the time.
If you give me three things to work with, I can do that. Add a fourth and something has to go.
So here is my question.
What network should I give up?
It’s not an easy decision.
Will it be Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google Plus that will go away?
What do you think?
Which one would you be willing to give up?
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Hi John,
I think it depends on what you do with your Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn and who are your followers. I may use Google plus to replace Facebook. LinkedIn is for professional networking and there is a potential that I can find someone I don’t know yet and learn a lot about him/her from LinkedIn profiles. So it cannot be replaced. Twitter, I use it to know what is happening in the world and spread my thoughts to influence people. I cannot afford to lose a number of followers if I switch to G+. I use Facebook to learn what happened to my friends and update my status such as getting married or just had a trip to Europe. If something really important happened to my friends, I will know eventually, maybe through other friends. I don’t have to be the first to know. i.e. I don’t have to learn it from Facebook. Facebook is also where “circles” should be applied. I may want only my close friends to know that I just had a fight with my husband…but keep it a secret to my high school classmates. I may want my family and good friends to know that my son finally can sleep through the night. But a batch of unmarried friends will think this is irrelevant to their lives. G+ enables me to send message via emails, thus if there is anything really important and I specifically want someone to know, I can do that, too.
Anyway, these are only based on my own experience and lifestyle. Hope that is useful for someone else.