I’ve spent the past four days in Google+, trying to figure out if it’s a Facebook killer, a Twitter killer, or just one more social network we have to use.
I can say with certainty it’s none of the above, but I haven’t yet figured out what the heck it is. Problem is, it’ll be hard to do so until a good number of my friends are in there and using it. As John Falchetto said, “We’re just the crash test dummies” right now.
I don’t think it’s a tool everyone will use. It’s doubtful it’ll have the same 50+ year old user like Facebook has, mostly because it’s linked to a Gmail account and Chrome, one more thing the Baby Boomers have to get. (more…)