My Readers:
Itz a news to all of us that Google has really started thinking about exploring Social networking domain seriously with Google Plus Project.Those guys in Google are hefty enough to put their impressions in that field which is a far cry of other networking sites. People like me who always prefer them in all spheres of my communication and contacts to the outer world were at a fix when tried something on platform of social networking. I wanted to communicate to my near and dear ones, my relatives, friends from those years of my childhood days, friends from my school, college and university days who live at the other parts of the planet. Facebook right at that point of time came up with the right idea and people started forwarding those information to others. Day by day, the saga went on and we all know where the company is right now. They earned the most trusted faith of their customers and their database went on building up. Orkut was there at point of time, but I don't actually know the reason behind none being able to stop the race of Facebook.
On introspecting the journey of facebook, all they did was a belief in one point agenda which was "Social Networking". They felt the need at right point of time and came up with the application website. All of us know these facts, but my point query to all my readers is "Why Google with all their intelligence couldn't come up with such idea before?"It can't be believed that they didn't feel the need at that point of time. When most of the net savvy guys from all over the world were sitting in from of their computers, opening internet explorer and searching anything they wished through "Google search engine", it really can't digest the understanding that those techies didn't have the idea from their search results. Anyway, it’s better late than never. At least those giants have realized the fact that even still untouched field can be touched upon where there is a lot of scope for improvement.
I believe that once they are into this field of work, they indeed will come up with flying colors. There is no doubt about that. They know this industry of internet more than any species of this universe. Just give you a example: This guys have immediately captured the loop holes in the idea of message broadcasting which we experience in Facebook or twitter, and explored the issue in the idea of "Circles". You can literally drag and drop your friends into predefined Circles where they give you the administrative control of organizing whom to see what or what to share with whom. We do fall into a awkward situation when a message gets broadcasted to all friends of friend list when it is intended for a single one. Though Groups can be formed in Facebook but the system is not that user friendly what I suppose. There are other features also like Hangouts, Sparks etc what you can easily know from the link https://plus.google.com/.
Guys. the agenda that Google has captured, may be of late, was quite overwhelming but the main issue lies with the way by which they have planned to capture the customer base. They need to break their head upfront to deal case of shifting people from the world of facebook (fb) and twitter. We all by the way, have got accustomed with the look of facebook. The word got spread up like anything from door to door, kitchen to kitchen. My mom-in-law, who is around 65 years old and is a house wife, even tries to find a little bit of her precious time out from her temple and kitchen to ask me to have a scroll at her facebook account. Everyday she eagerly waits for a new posting from her brothers and sisters who stay abroad. These days even she has started acclimatizing with the looks of Facebook. The strength of facebook is that it has made a tight grip on its customers like what Microsoft did with windows operating system WINXP.
Now, the upfront task of those Managers and Technocrats of Google is to break that bond. Its guaranteed that they have already planned and implemented the best possible ideas into their project of Google plus even before its launch, but what I. may be along with a few others from you, feel that they should had tried to built a collection of opinions and advices from their vast pool of customers of various platforms about the ways and means to improve their project. A few of my suggestions to the team include:
1. 1) They need to give incentives to those people who will migrate from other Social networking sites. It will be decided on the frequency of use of Google plus project and the number of users they brought from those domains.
2. 2) .These incentives may rise from intangible benefits to tangible income based on criteria that fulfill their s and agreement.
3. 3) The design of the screen should be very simple. Much simpler than existing social networking sites.
4. 4) They should emphasis on the scope of improvement for people of physical disablement. Like reading out the messages for them, embedding facility for calls to their friends etc.
5. 5) Circles formed in the form of generic names like “Student”, “Engineer”, “Doctor”, “Literates”, “Lawyers” etc .or even “Housewife” may be given some sort of inputs characteristically, on its entry within that circle. Something like what we get when while typing in Google search engine. A tab may be placed within that circle where a Doctor can search his/her relevant e-books or documents and download same at the same time.
6. 6) Option of various languages is a priority.
Its a possibility that all those options have already been incorporated or they find those worth not doing.But there are so many things that each one of us can contribute to make it a success. All the Best for the team.
