The latest player in the social media arena, Google+ has had a dismal start and experienced non-existent growth. There seems to be some pseudo-taxonomy of social media that labels various sites for various purposes, i.e. Facebook is for pictures of kids, Twitter is for news, and LinkedIn for recruitment. I don’t think I agree with that totally and to be completely honest, I’ve not given Google+ a try. However, the ability to segment your followers and therefore, your conversations is a feature that seems like it would have a following.
This interesting topic was brought to our attention by Technology Review in their article, “The Best Part of Google+ is That You Aren’t on It.” I guess like all things, they were easier and less cluttered when first launched, e.g., Facebook before annoying games.
Melody K. Smith
Sponsored by Access Innovations, the world leader in thesaurus, ontology, and taxonomy creation and metadata application.
