Google+ is growing like anything. When we look at Google+’s membership numbers earlier this week, s it looked like Google+ had already reached 10-million users. It looks like Google+ is growing faster than we actually thought.
These 15 million users are not tech-fans. There are different people testing Google+ and increasing their social circles. Many people like the control that circles give them over who sees their posts and who doesn’t; they like how it gives them more control over their data; and they like how it well Google+ already integrates with the rest of Google’s applications. I heard many developers talking about Gmail integration in Google+ to give Facebook Messaging look like facility.
All this spells trouble for the former unchallenged champion of social networking: Facebook. I think that Facebook is already running a little scared of Goggle+. No sooner than tools such as Open-Xchange’s program for exporting Facebook friends to Google+ show up, than Facebook blocks it.
But, all that said, is Facebook really in danger of going the way of MySpace? No, I don’t think it is. Not immediately anyway. That doesn’t mean though that Facebook is going to come off unharmed. Because, Facebook has 750-million users. And sure, even at Google+’s current growth rate, it will take some time for it to catch up with Facebook.
On the other hand, for all its popularity, a lot of people don’t like Facebook. According to the 2010 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, “Facebook scored 64 on the ACSI’s 100-point scale, which puts its satisfaction even lower than IRS e-filers. This puts Facebook in the bottom 5% of all measured private sector companies and in the same range as airlines and cable companies, two perennially low-scoring industries with terrible customer satisfaction.” Google, on the other hand, scored 80.
Courtesy : Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols – Zdnet
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