Social Networking
It was the summer of 2005 on the open road from California to Texas. In a blue SUV rode five freshly graduated high school seniors. For me, the trip to commemorate our high school years was a bitter sweet one; I was moving to San Antonio shortly after we arrived back from California. Bitter sweet because at the time, I knew I would probably never speak to or hear from anyone, other than my close friends, again. I knew I would never speak to or hear from any of the girls that we met on the beach ever again (especially bitter). Then in August of that same year I discover myspace.com. So much for goodbyes. (Why, hello again beach girl). Then came Facebook for me a little later. It looked allot more "cleaner" than MySpace and I just felt more comfortable using it. Now there is this Google +. I am interested not only in social networking, but , why and how Google + will compete with Facebook. MySpace got pretty cheap and "ghetto", so I see the obvious rationale for the facebook transition. Facebook has maintained a "clean" and very popular image. It has even be legitimized into being "acceptable" to have an account by various sources ("follow us on facebook") e.g. CNN, Fox News. It has a movie made after it. I think we should all be asking Google+ why mess with a good thing? What's better about you? What do you have that Facebook lacks? Why should we waste time in creating an account and "finding" friends and uploading pictures all over again?
