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Should I join Google+?
The new social networking site from Google, Google+, promotes segmenting shares and potentially lowers your reach to smaller audiences, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It all depends on your goal. On Facebook or Twitter, most people share to all their friends or even the world. It all depends how you use the tool, but as a general rule, Facebook Lists are inferior to Google+ Circles as far as the functionality of sharing to specific groups. Google+ as a medium can encourage intimacy and depth by restricting reach. What is your goal of being on a social network? If you don’t have a goal, then don’t join. If you can pinpoint a goal, join and try it out. If your goal is to share a message with as many people as possible, the answer is easy. Join Google+ and all major networks that allow you to broadcast your message. Do you want to keep up with your family and friends? Then see where your friends are and try out a place with the best features. That may be Facebook for now (unless you invite all your close friends to Google+). Wink. What’s my goal? I want to explore online connections with fewer amounts of friends in a deeper, more contextually way that throwing my random thoughts out to the masses. I see a trend towards over sharing and we’re loosing the power that comes from a private one-on-one connection. A letter. A circle of 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1. That’s why I’m still on Google+. The reason may change of course as it often will, but that’s my current goal.
