Who's the Real You? Google+ vs. Facebook vs. Twitter

Have you seen this?

http://www.womenofgplus.com/

A quote from the site:

"I started to collect a Google+ circle of women-only (aptly named ‘Women of G+’) and the idea of connecting with early adopter women in a new social networking platform is growing larger in my mind by the minute. I find it stimulating and refreshing to have a list of highly intelligent women on G+ to read every morning over coffee. Thanks for letting me take a peek into your brilliant minds."

Thanks for writing this Lisa, and thank you for mentioning my post. I just wish more women were on G+. As much as I love it, it's a total Boys Club right now. So if any of you would like to add me or be added to my ladies circle, look for Jessica Wallin (same picture as this one) and feel free to add me and I will do the same.

http://jessicapwallin.com.com ( http://jessicapwallin.com )

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I made the switch to Google+ a couple of days ago and I AM NEVER GOING BACK! At first I was put off by the fact that only a handfull of my friends had joined but now that more and more of them are starting to filter in I'm loving it. I completely agree with you!

i just blogged about this as well and could not agree with you more!

My issues with FB are as follows:
http://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com/2011/06/527.html

Maybe I won't have to hide as many people on Google.

Robyn writes for www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com ( http://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com ) where she serves up a little bit of everything. Everything except food.

I am muddling about on G+, deciding how to use it, etc, so I do appreciate your thoughts and ideas. I am Joan Adams there. Somehow I have different names on different sites. Not sure how to go about fixing that. Result of writing on line for so long, I guess.

Thank you! I hope G+ will be great for all of us.

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I think I managed to invite you. lol I found your email address on your contact page and used that one. Assuming I did it correctly you should have an invite. I think. :)

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Seriously, I'm checking my email ten times an hour, waiting for an email telling me I've been invited to try it.

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Google+ will definitely appeal to women as a perfect way to get organized. Having the Calendar, Gmail and Google Docs with the same login and links to them in the same place also helps.

... is take what Facebook was already doing and make it more user friendly. Nothing more, nothing less.

You linked to a comment on another post by Mashadutoit as a reference to Facebook not having the tools, but that comment is wrong. You *can* adjust your "security" on every single status update. I do every time I use Facebook. It's become clear since Google+ was launched however, that most people don't know this.

Google has shined a bright light on Facebook's weaknesses, for sure, but that weakness is not necessarily in the features of the product; it's in the communication of those features to users.

You can do this all on Facebook, people just didn't know it. So when Google came around and said "LOOK, look what you can do here!" everyone got excited for a feature they've been coveting. That feature's been right under their noses all along though. Google just gave it a shiny new spot at the front of the shelf.

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Diana Prichard authors Cultivating the Art of Sustenance ( http://www.dianaprichard.com ) and is the owner of the small farm Olive Hill ( http://www.onolivehill.com ).

I only got on it yesterday. Right now it seems like just another thing to update and with updates going to the same people I follow on other networks.

I think... I think if it had come out earlier, before I started adding social media contacts to Facebook (which I've really only done in the last year or so), I might be more excited about it. I still don't do any blog promotion through Facebook (it's largely a Sassymonkey-free zone) so that's something I could maybe see doing through Google+.

BlogHer Book Club Host Karen Ballum also blogs at Sassymonkey ( http://sassymonkey.ca ) and Sassymonkey Reads ( http://sassymonkeyreads.ca ).

Jebbica of 3G Geek Girl takes an amusing user tour of MySpace --> Facebook --> Google+ here: http://jessicapwallin.com/is-google-plus-the-new-f...

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"...but more about connecting with people by sharing the things which interest you, and commenting on other people's interesting shares."

Amen. Quality conversation. And, given the lack of character limitation, a lot like blogging.

I like the single circle idea, the ability to curate your own reading in a browser-accessible location. Noise in the feed-reader is problem too, and bookmarks do require a lot of hopping around.

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Kerri, they are holding off on the brand pages for now. Google will be starting to pilot some things in a couple of weeks. More here on that: http://adage.com/article/digital/google-brand-page... ( http://adage.com/article/digital/google-brand-page... )

I mainly use Facebook and Twitter for blog promotion, and it seems like Google+ is just for personal use. Anyone find ways to create the equivalent of a "page" on this?

-Kerri is the author of Real Hartford ( http://www.realhartford.org )

Agree :)

It is fascinating to watch how people are using circles over there in Google +

For example, I've seen suggestions to make a circle with only yourself in it, and to reshare posts to that circle so you can read them later at your leisure.

Or to have a circle for a particular event you are planning with a specified group of other people.

But the thing I like best about G+ is that like Buzz, it is not about connecting with people through your status updates, but more about connecting with people by sharing the things which interest you, and commenting on other people's interesting shares.

Along with Buzz, its the only online place outside of forums, that I've made real friends, and had real conversations.

I've made some real new friends on Buzz and G+, friends with strangers - something that never happened to me when I used to be on Facebook.

Hi Lisa,
I agree that a compelling value proposition of Google+ is the ability to compartmentalize. But is it enough?
What Goog+ needs is for large volumes of people to join and actively participate. They have 18 million now (vs. 700 mil for FB) but the users are generally not active enough, for now.
I don't know if there is room for both FB and Goog+ to both be winners. I think people will mainly focus on just one, as social networking requires precious time. I'm not fond of toggling between the two.
We have FB, Goog+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora, BranchOut, StumbleUpon, Pandora, IM, e-mail etc. all wanting our time.
We are guinea pigs in a massive social experiment. I wonder how it will shake out. For now I am loving it. These are cool toys in the mind of a child.
Goog+ needs to be broadly compelling and I don't see that just yet. People already have many years invested in FB and may not share your dislikes. And if I go to Goog+ full time will my friends come too?
I have several friends singing the Goog+ praise. My response is time will tell. I think Goog+ faces a hard uphill battle for various reasons.