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Whether Google plus can Dethrone 'The Social Network'?
When we come across the phrase “The Social Network”, then the first thing which comes to our mind is Facebook, that's because of two reasons. First being that FB is the marketing leader in social networking and secondly the movie “The Social Network” which is based on the life of the founder of FB Mark Zuckerberg.
Social networking is a private internet within the internet which never seems to die but from the past we have been seeing that the platforms are changing. Firstly it was Friendster which was replaced by Orkut and lead by MySpace which the Facebook dethroned.
Now people are wondering whether Google plus will dethrone Facebook???
Well for some people it’s a clear cut answer, they favor either of the two but still it’s a very controversial topic.
Social media nowadays are also being very vastly used as business marketing tool. This is the place where google plus seems to be taking over FB. Some people are moving away from Facebook to Google plus, reason being that they find it difficult to separate business and friends on FB. They don’t want their business people to peep more into their personal side but they fail to control it accordingly. To fix this issue, Google plus has +circle feature which has got more privacy control and individual can decide whom should they get their information exposed to.
Another edge which Google Plus has over Facebook is the +Hangout feature. Even after upgrading so many features Facebook still doesn’t have the video chat facility embedded in it. By using +Hangout upto 10 people can get into video chatting which can even be used for small business conferences purposes.
Now coming to the statics of G+:Paul Allen who is well known for his title as “Unofficial Google+ statistician” has come up with the following data:
Google plus has crossed 62 million user’s mark.21.4% of all users have joined G+ in the month of Dec,11.Number of users expected to reach 400 Million by end of 2012(A big reason to worry for Facebook)62500 new users are registering daily.
(I am sure Mark Zuckerberg won't this)
Further the revenue chart released by Paul Allen:
July 13 - 10millionAugust 1 - 20.5millionSeptember 1 - 24.7millionOctober 1 - 38million (Larry Page announced ‘more than 40m users’ on Oct 13)November 1 - 43millionDecember 1 - 50millionDecember 27 - 62millionJanuary 1 - 65.8million (forecast)February 1 - 85.2million (forecast)
No one can predict the fate of these two platforms. Let’s see how this marketing giant performs in the social networking arena dominated by Facebook. Some say that it is highly possible that G+ can outperform thesocial media connectivity of businesses which Facebook has.
P.S. Mark Zukerberg too is a user of Google Plus :)
Social networking is a private internet within the internet which never seems to die but from the past we have been seeing that the platforms are changing. Firstly it was Friendster which was replaced by Orkut and lead by MySpace which the Facebook dethroned.
Now people are wondering whether Google plus will dethrone Facebook???
Well for some people it’s a clear cut answer, they favor either of the two but still it’s a very controversial topic.
Social media nowadays are also being very vastly used as business marketing tool. This is the place where google plus seems to be taking over FB. Some people are moving away from Facebook to Google plus, reason being that they find it difficult to separate business and friends on FB. They don’t want their business people to peep more into their personal side but they fail to control it accordingly. To fix this issue, Google plus has +circle feature which has got more privacy control and individual can decide whom should they get their information exposed to.
Another edge which Google Plus has over Facebook is the +Hangout feature. Even after upgrading so many features Facebook still doesn’t have the video chat facility embedded in it. By using +Hangout upto 10 people can get into video chatting which can even be used for small business conferences purposes.
Now coming to the statics of G+:Paul Allen who is well known for his title as “Unofficial Google+ statistician” has come up with the following data:
Google plus has crossed 62 million user’s mark.21.4% of all users have joined G+ in the month of Dec,11.Number of users expected to reach 400 Million by end of 2012(A big reason to worry for Facebook)62500 new users are registering daily.
(I am sure Mark Zuckerberg won't this)
Further the revenue chart released by Paul Allen:
July 13 - 10millionAugust 1 - 20.5millionSeptember 1 - 24.7millionOctober 1 - 38million (Larry Page announced ‘more than 40m users’ on Oct 13)November 1 - 43millionDecember 1 - 50millionDecember 27 - 62millionJanuary 1 - 65.8million (forecast)February 1 - 85.2million (forecast)
No one can predict the fate of these two platforms. Let’s see how this marketing giant performs in the social networking arena dominated by Facebook. Some say that it is highly possible that G+ can outperform thesocial media connectivity of businesses which Facebook has.
P.S. Mark Zukerberg too is a user of Google Plus :)
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