Google

I just saw a class presentation about Google. When I saw the title of the presentation, I thought to myself, what could they possibly say about Google that I, or most people, don’t already know? Well, the answer is A Whole Lot.

The first part of my new knowledge about Google was the history. The presenters took us all the way back to when the founders met and everything that they have done to enhance Google till now. They put a time stamp on everything. I thought I knew the order of the new Google updates and inventions, but I quickly learned that I did not. I also was impressed at the statistics of users that they included. I never would’ve thought that Google+ was the second largest social media forum that was used in the world today. I always thought it was Facebook, then twitter, then instagram. You know, like most of us young folks use.

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I want to talk more about the Google+ aspect of Google. Like a lot of people, I have a Gmail account and I always see people inviting me to join their circle in Google+ and many more, but I always ignore it. Mainly because I feel like I can deal with another social media website, but this presentation really opened my eyes to exactly what Google+ is and what it can do. I didn’t know that the circles meant having the ability to separate your followers and editing who can see what. Why doesn’t Facebook have this feature again? I also didn’t know that through Google+ and Hangouts you could just have a group video conversation with as many people you want in the conversation. Why doesn’t Google advertise this more???

I never bothered to deal with or look at Google+ but this really opened my eyes to it and now I am more willing to use this social media site. (They have sucked me in smh).