Why Google+ is better than Facebook ? Answers here !!

It’s been only few days that Google+ entered the market, and the new social network from Google already is making buzz over internet as a social network which will beat Facebook. A lot of tech websites are talking about Google+ and what makes it different or better than Facebook, and how can it beat Facebook. So we too decided to give it a try and find out whether the buzz is for real or it’s just like what we saw at the time of Google Wave and Google Buzz.


The prominence or as you call the marketing of Google+ is so strong that even the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has got a Google+ account.

A lot of people are still thinking that will Google+ succeed in dethroning Facebook as the global leader in Social Networking, just like Facebook did to MySpace.

After giving serious thought and research to Google+, here’s what we found, or you can say, here are the reason why Google+ is better than Facebook:


1) Google+ Circles: Better Privacy Control


Rather than having a Facebook’s Friends’ list, Google+ groups your friends via +Circles. And the best thing about these +Circles are that it allows you to share your status update or photo or anything with your choice of +Circle. This is something that gives Google+ a bit edge over Facebook in privacy control.
According to a Google engineer, “Its really vital for us. You should be able to have control on who to and who not to see your posts.”
Google+ will be able to drag their friends into social “circles”, which they will be creating as per their liking. The circles are designed in a manner that they remain private. For instance, users can name the circles as “Acquaintances,” “Family” and “Co-workers.”

2) Google+ Hangouts: Allows Video Chat For Up To 10 People
Considering the fact that Facebook even now doesn’t have the video chat feature, tech buffs are already pointing out where Google+ already is ahead in the social networking game. Using +Hangouts in Google+, 10 people at a time could video chat using +Hangouts.
The +Hangouts gives the users a web platform to hangout with their circles, and considering the fact that people have always liked hanging out with their friends in family, this we think is a superb offering.
We’ve heard that Facebook will be launching Skype-Powered browser video chat on Wednesday as an answer to +Hangouts.

3) +Sparks: Choose Who to Share News/Topics With
This by far is our favorite feature, and the simple reason for that being the fact that the +Sparks gives articles and videos that it thinks you might be interested in reading and hence gives you something to read, watch and share whenever you are free.

A Google+ user might want to share a news or video with specific Circles in their Social Network, and the good thing here is that if you want you can either share the news or topic with a certain Circle on your social network or can share it with all of your connections on Google+.

So, there are some of the reasons why we think that the Google+ is better than Facebook, if you have different opinions or whatever you think of Google’s new Social Network, do let us know.

Google+ New Competition for Facebook ?

Internet search giant Google has launched its new social networking service called Google+. This is part of yet another effort from the company, to claim a share in the lucrative social networking space dominated by Facebook. Google+ not only lets users post photos, videos, messages, comments, etc, but also will bring "real-world interactions" and "real-life sharing" online, according to the company. Google's Senior Vice President for Engineering, Vic Gundotra said in a blog post, "Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools. Through the Google Plus project, we'd like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software".

In what may sound outrageous to some, the company has claimed that this new service aims to "fix" the "broken" and "awkward" way in which people interact online at present. Certain interesting features in the service such as Circles, Sparks, Hangouts, and Mobile may be worth a look at. Circles, for example, shares the user's information with a large number of his \ her friends and colleagues (rather than only close friends), thus expanding the friends circle of the user. That does not mean that all your info will be up for grabs. Google clarifies that the service will let users share just the right things with just the right people. The feature allows the user to club certain groups of users, such as My school pals, My colleagues, etc. Information shared in such groups will be exclusive to the group members.


Similarly, Hangouts lets you convey to your friends when you will be free for a video hangout: to watch online videos together, just like going to a movie together. Sparks is a feed of things you're interested in. You can specify your fields of interest, so that when you're free, there will always be something waiting to be watched, read, or shared. Users will also have access to an Instant Upload feature using which, Google will instantly add photos taken by a user to a private album in the cloud, with the permission of the user, of course. One major difference between Google's new service and Facebook, is that the former will let users video chat with several friends simultaneously. Currently, this service is in the pilot stage and is available by invitation only and seemed to have temporarily exceeded its capacity when we last visited. Nevertheless, you can visit the home page of this service, leave your email address, and wait for Google to get back to you. Android phone users can download the Google+ application from the Market.


Will Google+ be able to upset Facebook and become the new king of social networking web space? Or will it fizzle out like Google's much-hyped Buzz? In our opinion, it will depend on the number of original ideas incorporated into this service and also the ease of accessibility to the user. Please let us know your take on this, in the space below.