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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Will Google Profiles kill off or threaten Facebook's popularity?
Google Profiles is incredible less complicated, less busy, and way easier to use than Facebook. (according to reviewers). Although many people do not even know about this new application, it apparently has all that Facebook offers but without the ever increasingly hard to use interface. Facebook is way ahead of the game in terms of users and popularity. Does Google Profiles even have a chance? Check out this article...
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Personally, I like it. Just signed up and made myself one. I like the simplicity. But will it threaten facebook? Probably not. Honestly, google may end up owning facebook soon enough anyway despite zucks desire to keep it for himself. Eh. Who knows? If you asked me if facebook would ever overtake myspace...I might have said no to that as well. Wait, no I probably would have called that since myspace was always disgustingly gross to me.
ReplyDeleteLet me just start by saying that personally I am addicted to facebook, so no I don't believe anything could ever take it's place.
ReplyDeleteAside from that, the article mentioned one big difference between facebook and the new google profiles being the ease with which friends could find one another on google profiles given the amount of information they provide to everyone. I do not believe this is a bonus, as I like the privacy options facebook allows. I like knowing that random strangers won't find much information about me. I know some of my friends even took their names off the search on facebook so that only they can friend people, not the other way around. While facebook profiles are a fun way to share information about yourself with acquaintances and friends, I don't believe everyone in the world has to know what my activities and favorite quotes are, or even that it should be of much interest to those who will never meet me in person. I find the friend requests of random strangers a little awkward, and deny them without much thought.
I think facebook is too established in the younger generations for a more simple google to effect facebook's popularity. I think more professionals who use gmail at work will take interest in google profiles while maintaining their facebook accounts. There is so much to do on facebook that it will never get boring as more and more younger generations join. As for the simplicity of google, that might be more attractive to older generations.
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't think Google Profiles could take the place of facebook, or even myspace. Both of these hugely popular websites attract certain types of people. Myspace attracts mostly those in high school, where as facebook is for those who go to college or have graduated from college. While Google Profiles might become quite popular, I don't see them taking over these two particular markets. I think it might be attractive to tech savvy businessmen for some reason.
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