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Google Circles
Google Plus is the most revolutionary social networking system to launch since Facebook. It has a number of innovative features that sets it apart from its number one competitor, and the fact that it comes from Google makes the product even more attractive. While there are many things that make Google Plus great, what I will be focusing on here is the use of Google Circles. This is the first unique feature that people run into, and I want to tell you why this is truly an amazing capability. Odds are you’ve had problems in the past that could have been solved with Circles, so take this information to heart.
What is amazing about Google Circles is the amount of control it gives you. There is no longer a need to control what you show on your profile, because the most intimate things can be shared with only your closest friends. What Circles allows you to do is classify people and put them into various Circles, which facilitates the distribution of every message. An example should help clarify this a lot more.
Let’s say you have three groups of people; friends, family, and business partners. You put people into the proper circles and now have a useful classification system for all the people you know. Now let’s say you go to a party that was extremely fun, but at which you did things your family and business partners might not be so proud of. When you post your pictures of the crazy party, or make a status update about it, you can set these things so only people in your Friends circle see them. So on Thursday night, your family and boss will only see your post about how you stayed up for six hours studying for an exam or reading a compelling novel, while they’ll be blind to your Friday night post about how great the party was. While this capability is available to a limited extent in Facebook, it is much harder to use and much harder to make a mistake with.
Google Circles is only one of many features that exist on Google Plus at this moment, and more features are going to be added once the site exits the beta phase. The only question that remains is will Google Plus and Facebook go into an all-out war, or will the brands be able to exist side by side? Only time will tell.