Evolution of Social Media photo of Google CEO-Larry Page

Earlier I had a discussion in oluvil campus blog titled Google starts socialize more around the web  post and I  mentioned about the Google's new social networking project, Google Plus. Now you all know about that.
See how Google Plus is growing after launching two months they have millions of users.Most of the Google plus users know about the internet(tech savvy).

Features of Google Plus in contrast to Facebook.

Circles
"Circles" enables users to organize contacts into groups for sharing across various Google products and services. Although other users can view a list of people in a user's collection of circles, they cannot view the names of those circles.

Hangouts
"Hangouts" are places used to facilitate group video chat (with a maximum of 10 people participating in a single Hangout at any point in time). However, anyone on the web could potentially join the "Hangout" if they happen to possess the unique URL of the Hangout.


Messenger
"Messenger" formerly: Huddle) is a feature available to Android, iPhone, and SMS devices for communicating through instant messaging within circles. Additionally, you can now share photos in Messenger between your circles

Sparks
"Sparks" is a front-end to Google Search, enabling users to identify topics they might be interested in sharing with others. "Featured interests" sparks are also available, based on topics others globally are finding interesting. Sparks helps to keep users informed of the latest updates on the topics of their interest.

Games
(Social Gaming) had 16 games when launched on 11 August 2011. Unlike Facebook games, Google+ games are located under a games tab which gives games less visibility,[34] with notifications that are separate from the rest of a user's notifications.

+1 button

Google+ has a "+1" button to allow people to recommend sites and parts of sites similar in use to Facebook's Like button .Google recently announced that since introducing this +1 button, it is now being served more than 5 billion times per day.Similar to other Google applications, Google+ provides integration with other Google applications like Gmail, Calendar, Documents, etc.


Many Facebook users have Google plus accounts you can experience Google plus while keeping Facebook.
Not a Google plus user yet?

Go to plus.google.com and sign in with your Gmail account.

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