Facebook vs Google+,

THE DUEL

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acebook founder Mark Zukerberg will be happy if you to replicate your entire life with the new timeline feature whether or not you really want to. The timeline replaces exiting profile pages provides facebook user with totally new options to record their experiences in their digital diaries. The introductions of timeline could be an answer to the latest strong competitor google+. Since September social networks have been on overdrive to retain users interest and facebook is in danger of slipping out of its comfortable dominant position. Time for a test, in which we ask the question which is the network of the feature?

            Simply put the network in which one fids the majority of his or her friends, i.e. his social sphere. Facebook with around 800 million users has a clear lead here. Search giant Google is playing the role of David in this case. Even though it already has registered approximately 40 million people. Our aims for the test however lead us to examine what both networks offer their users in terms the option for communication information search usability and data security.

            Facebook is rolling out a strategy change with lots of new feature since its activity has started leveling off in some countries such as the USA. The new strategy is to make more content visible on each page and strengthen the connections between user. Along with the timeline facebook uses a system called open graph 2.0, which integrates the data from apps into the profile. And Google+ has a better search function to offer, and the strong integration of other Google service.

            User communication remains the most obvious common offering of both services. Facebook is aligning the focus on personal content and experiences, while Google emphasizes information and how it flows in each user network. This mirrors the different strengths of the contenders. Can Google+ seriously challenge facebook this way? In contrast to Google+ facebook has been designed as a platform that opens up like a self-contained world of communication entertainment and discovery. Facebook and its many out side developers continually improve this products and provide user with a highly personalized experience. Google+ has till now only used user profile to used user profiles to link friends and contacts of course has its email video and chat services already online apart from a trump card in the form of its own mobile operating system Android. If Google+ become a danger facebook  which is historically weak where mobile access is concerned. It all depends on three factors communication usability and data security. The main purpose of a social network is communication so what matters is how well one can chat and interact with others privately and publicly on-the-go and on the PC. The ability and ease of representing ourselves and histories will also begin to matter. How easily one can find information or small details in profiles on either service and how easily you can control who else sees them? How transparent is the sharing of our content and how can we control it exactly? The platform itself becomes useless if we the users are vulnerable to publishing and other attacks.

            Communication: The central element in both networks is the stream of information that represents news about one friend. Facebook seems to functions perfectly since our expectations are based on this model. The “Top news” view sorts the stream as per the an algorithm which fevers multimedia updates likes photos and videos along with posts that have attacked many comments. You might not like the filtering but it is helpful when checking large volumes and updates to display what facebook believers to be interesting more prominently. A real time chronological view is implemented in the form of a live ticker that displays all news items from friends in the right side margin. Googol+ on the other hand has fewer options and displays everything cleanly chronologically which does not offer any scope for customization. Only if you sort friends into many circles and then filter within the circle can you manage the flow of news.

            Usability: The huge scope of functions on facebook has one disadvantage: the site is often confusing and features are nested within each other. Google+ users have an easier time as we have measured in practical tests. A typical example of this is the data security setting which are divided into numerous sub-categories in facebook and take a long while to fully understand. In fact it seems unnecessarily complicated to change the user does not change them leading to potential disasters in the future. In Google+ you can edit all settings for visibility of personal information directly as it should be “oogle has learned from the Buzz disaster and Google+ has been developed from the beginning with awareness of data security. The difference also surely lies in age: facebook has been around for about eight years and Google+is still less than a year old. It is a challenge for Google to maintain pleasantly simple operation while adding as many features as its competitor has over the years. Using the very successful timeline facebook provides users with many more options to represent themselves. They replaced the old profile page and reproduced the user profile as a record of all his or her private and professional life experience.