Thoughts on Google+
I got invited to become a member of the new Google+ social network site a while back. Google+ is basically in beta and not open to the public until later. Google+ is designed to compete with social networking giant Facebook. Ironically, I was one of the original beta users for Facebook as well, so I've been involved with social networking sites for quite some time. Google+ has created a huge amount of buzz in the internet world. It was suppose to compete with or even signal the doom of Facebook. Facebook has a lot of detractors, though few people who use it refuse to dump it entirely because there are so many people one can keep up with only through Facebook. I can contact virtually all the people I met when I was living in England only through Facebook. The problem with Facebook is threefold. One is that the owners unilaterally make changes to the program without consulting users. This comes in the form of unwanted updates and general ongoing tinkering that is really more of a...