In the war of social networking, facebook and google+ are fighting tooth and nail. It has been the likes of experts and much to the interest of strategists to talk about google+ dethroning Facebook. Projections have been made and compared, as to how the new entry in the somewhat slippery market of networking will perform.

 

Its been few months only that google plunged into social network after their failure at ORKUT. Just after its launch, it created the much needed hype and caught the attention of one and all. This is how, it has been able to grab 25 million users in just 4 weeks and has almost 20 million visitors. This is a huge success in terms of Facebook having almsot 750 million users but in almost 7 years.

I still remember that orkut has been a rage, fist when it came. Almost everybody wanted to have an account , so that they can connect to unknown people, especially the opposite sex. That created the interest of social networking among the masses. Then facebook came and cashed upon the hunger for sharing photos with ideas, and also offred a plethora of other applications to their users. Quickly, it became a rage among a particular section of the sociey, and then it was like a fire in the jungle.

A recent Bloomberg/YouGov surveyshowed that 13 per cent of Americans have signed up for Google+, with 45 per cent of users reading content once a day or more (only Facebook is higher, at 62 per cent), and 46 per cent creating content at least once a week, which is similar Twitter (42 per cent).

 

The magic of social networking is itself hitting the wall, with users getting bored of the usual blue and white stuff at facebook. Thegames at facebook have become redundant. a recent survey have shown a slip of almost 20% in the usage of games applications.

 

Maybe, the new google+ will provide a refreshing new experience to its users. It took me a while to get to know about the new platform, but I soon I got addicted.  It has better control over who sees your information, excellent integration with Gmail, and no clunky “friend requests”.

 

So, after the shift of economies, its the time to shift your profiles.