Google +
Abstract
Google Plus has been Google's most successful rival to Facebook. It focused on the importance of privacy from the start, important both because of the history with Buzz and because Facebook was actively criticized for its privacy issues at the time. Google Plus was, in part, promoted as a privacy-respecting alternative. This chapter presents an overview of the different types of information people share on the site and how to find those people.
Keywords
Social media
Social networks
Google Plus
Introduction: Before Google +
Google + (pronounced, and sometimes written, as “Google Plus”) is Google's online social networking platform. It is similar to Facebook in many ways.
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