What is next for Google+

Google+ seems very promising. I am very positive that Google+ can kill Facebook. Yesterday, this phrase ‘Facebook, Google’ll kill you!’was buzzing in mind. It sprung from Holden’s sister Phoebe’s dialogue ‘They’ll kill you’ in The Catcher in the Rye which she repeats very often to tell him that their parents would not like it when they will know that he got an axe from one more school. Where Google+ stands today cannot be compared with Facebook, but the right comparison will be with what Facebook was when it was launched several years ago.

I already wrote it would be taking away lots of noise that Facebook has by clubbing all contacts in the together. I also wish that they do not have those applications that businesses use to save people form boredom, and if there are any, the alerts should go only to the people who are sharing that application. If I do not care what Farmville is, I do not want to know how cheap tomato is on somebody’s shop.

I believe the next step for Google will be to offer a platform for forums. People who really follow an interested-based community, such as a photography, literature, sports or travel group, do not rely on the popular social networking because there aim is only to chat about the interest. They also want to limit their interaction to the topic, and do not want to extend friendship with each forum member. The forums allow them to interact with like minded people, while maintaining the anonymity of the Internet offers because other forum members know only as much information about them as they wish to reveal. If Google will offer a platform where people can start and run forums for free, as they are offering blog platform now, most forums and communities can move to Google. It will be convenient because people will not have to sign up when they want to participate in multiple forums. However, Google will have to ensure that the forum members get to chose their ID/ nic name for each forum because they may not want to trouble their friends or acquaintances with what they are discussing. In return, Google can do better targeted advertising as it really knows what are the interests of a user.

If they can run these forums, they can even make forums available to other businesses, such as to newspapers, magazines and businesses, where customers share comments with the only sign up of Google, although choosing a nic name (What will internet be if people did not have nic names!) as they like. This will be a more effective usage than the ‘fan pages’ which we have on Facebook because they will have more meaningful and honest dialogues, and fewer promotions because social media is not for promotion.

If that happens, Google will rule the social media. And, it has potential to reach there.