The latest social network on the block, Google Plus, is still in “field trial” with limited users, including a few of us on The Palm Beach Post’s web team and elsewhere in the newsroom who are trying it out.
However, early response is positive. There are already 10 million users, and they’re sharing 1 billion items a day, according to Google CEO Larry Page.
At first glance, Google+ seems to similar to Facebook, especially in the layout and function of its news feed, notifications and posts. Users “+1″ posts instead of liking them.
One key perk, though, is how easy G+ makes it to segregate posts among different audiences. For instance, if I want to post something about my vacation, I can easily choose to share that post only with my Friends circle on G+. If I want to put on my journalist hat and share my comments on the latest Pew survey, I can share that post either publicly or with just my Journalism circle.
As The New York Times’ review of G+ points out: “You share each item with only the people who deserve to know. And simultaneously, you spare the masses from seeing news of no interest to them; why should the whole world be in on your discussion of this Friday’s bowling outing?”
Facebook offers this functionality, but doesn’t make it nearly as easy. And Twitter doesn’t really do offer at all, sticking mostly to the tweets-are-public-to-the-world model that got Anthony Weiner in so much trouble. Continue reading →
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