Brian Solis recently posted a poll asking his contacts if they’d abandon Facebook for Google+.
A shocking large number – 24% – are currently saying yes. Really? Are a quarter of technically-savvy social media types going to abandon the biggest social network on the planet?
I say no, and here’s the comment I made:
Facebook = friends & family.
Google+ = tech stuff.
LinkedIN = professional networking.
Twitter = not sure anymore…
Mom’s not going to G+. Not gonna happen. And neither are all your cousins, aunts, and other assorted relatives. Plus, most of your school friends who aren’t engineers or otherwise geeky won’t be there – at least not for a while.
So there’s room for all the networks to play.
Except maybe for Twitter, which is still super-strong, but which will (I think) lose a significant component of it’s more technical contributors to G+.
Time will tell …
Unfortunately this article lacks any degree of forward thinking. Sure, your Aunts and Uncles won’t leave Facebook for G+ *as it is now*, but then back in the day, most people you surveyed wouldn’t have left MySpace for Facebook, yet look what happened.
Who knows what future features G+ might implement that could make it a Facebook beater and result in Joe Normal ditching Facebook for it.
Don’t confuse “social networking” with “being dumb enough to put all your private information into the public domain.”
“Mom’s not going to G+. Not gonna happen. And neither are all your cousins, aunts, and other assorted relatives.”
I don’t see the downside to this?
LOL