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Thursday (15th March 2012)

Blog Of The Nation

In this article entitled "Google Plus: Do You Need Another Social Network?" written by Scott Cameron talks about the new social network created by Google that is Google Plus. Google Plus was designed to compete with other social networks that are most widely used such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Cameron describes Google Plus as an application that can forms a habit that people will likely stick with. A survey was conducted and he found out that Google Plus is different from others since it is shiny and new. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean that they are going to leave the other social networks by sudden. Moreover, they are still using Facebook and some might says that Google Plus feels empty.

Other than that, Cameron also emphasizes about the advantages and weaknesses of Google Plus. The main page is uncluttered and easy to navigate. The drag-and-drop circles are also simple to create and delete. It also provides chats and video chats open with a click and a better privacy controls compared to others. However, the initial setup can be quite confusing. Here, Cameron says that Google Plus shoot up at launch and gain users faster than most expected. Besides, Cameron also talks about how Tom Anderson, the founder of MySpace shared some advices with Google Plus on how to manage the site.

Overall, I think this article is quite beneficial and gives me a new information about Google Plus since I do not know yet about it at all. This article also is suitable for teenagers who love to use social networks as their medium of communication with other people. However, some of its sentence structure use high language and makes me quite hard to understand.