Tomsguide.com put out a great list and explanations of this subject. I’ve made a summary of them here with my notes, but go check out their site for the reasons why these 10 make sense.
10 Reasons Why You’ll Be Using Google Plus In A Year
1. This Time Google Is Serious. Google did an incredible job incubating with influencers and have a very open dialogue and listening to everyone.
2. Google Owns About 23% of Browser Market. The ability for developers to quickly build integrations in Chrome with G+ is awesome.
3. Google Owns Android
4. Google Owns All The Tools Competitors Want Or Are Flailing To Acquire – The Youtube integration is a super cool feature for adding videos to a post.
5. Google Owns Business Applications And Servers
6. Google Owns Search. The SEO of being able to have your posts searched on the internet is huge.
7. Making A Connection Does Not Require Approval From The Second Party. Publishing to public or sending to the Friends in your Extended circles helps draw new followers.
8. Circles are Mandatory On Plus, Which Will Feel More Comfortable. Circles rock as a way of Grouping.
9. Google Can Afford to Let Plus Be Just A Social Network. All of Googles other products benefit new users from Google+.
10. Everything on your account is exportable—in an obvious way
Source: http://www.tomsguide.com
Great article.. thanks
Thats make sence)
Google seems more determined this time too. Their failures with Wave, Buzz, and Sidebar and a few others seems to have given them smart insights. It seems like those other attempts were all learning experiences in retrospect. Painful learning experiences too.
They also own GMail, which is tied directly into the G+ platform. Of all their properties, Gmail is probably the most important to Google+.
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You’ve given some great reasons here and I wish they were true for me. BUT . . . If I don’t begin to see some traffic to my stream soon, I’m not sure that I’ll be here in a month never mind a year. I’m not sure if my settings are messed up or what, but blog posts that have a large readership at WordPress and on my Facebook page are getting not ONE on Google+. So I’m not sure what the draw is to Google+. Not complaining, just perplexed.
Why use Google+ when Facebook is implementing the same features? Here is a counterargument for you to check out: http://bit.ly/pGfdai
Always great to be up on the latest technology!
Anyone have any clue when business profiles are going to hit. I keep personal and business separate but would like to do it on the same social media platform. Until then it’s FB and Twitter mainly for me. I have a basically dormant G+ personal profile because I can’t be everywhere.