Five Reasons To Try Out Google+

I remember the time when google+ was about to be launched. I read about it's new feature of putting people in different circles so that you can share their updates with relevant people, more like hide it from a few people. I can also recall that Facebook said that they didn't fear google+ as the concept of circles is not sufficient enough for users to take the load of migrating. Moreover a lot of people would prefer to share their updates with the whole friend list rather than go with the complication of sharing it in various circles and I was one of the latter ones. I totally agreed with Facebook. I had presumed that google+ is a failure and never bothered to give it a try up until recently.

My first interaction with google+ might be when I started writing blogs on Blogger. There is a feature which automatically shares all your posts on google+. Even then I never bothered to actually visit the site. It was when I felt like putting an image to my Gmail account, that I visited google+ for the first time but didn't stay to surf. Finally, it was a boring, nothing-to-do day that I felt like surfing google+ and since then I've paid quite a few visits to it now and then which has made me realize that google+ actually still has a lot of hope. Here's why.

• The GIF Images
  Google+ allows the sharing of gif images which although sounds trivial, makes it a lot interesting actually.
  
  Tell me the following GIFs won't make surfing google+ fun.
  
  
  
  
  
• All the Google services are connected.
  Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances many of its online properties, and that it is not simply a social networking website, but also an authorship tool that associates web-content directly with its owner/author. It has helped them understand each user as an individual since google+ interconnects all of google services i.e. gmail, youtube, google drive, google maps, blogger etc. into a user profile.
  
  In fact, now we can even email google+ connections. Although it is criticized a lot, but in my view that was quite a smart move by Google. Our email addresses aren’t visible to someone on Google+ until we send them an email or reply to an email they sent us in Gmail. Moreover, we can control who can email us via Google+ by changing our settings in Gmail.
  So all in all, we can use it to our benefit without being spammed.
  
  
• Google+ Communities are pretty awesome.
  

          The posts are actually useful, interesting and are kept under check by moderators.

• The google+ circles aren't exactly cumbersome. 
  Whenever we 'Add' someone, it gives us the following options.
  
  We can add a person into multiple circles. Likewise, when we share something, it gives us the same options. So, it happens right away without involving any kind of custom settings and is therefore not really a task as it sounded to me earlier.
• Much lesser spams
  Spamming according to me, is terribly handled by The Facebook Team. There has been numerous times when my friends and I have reported something and Facebook just never does anything about it.
  
  One time a guy had used a cover picture of my friend's profile which was a group photo of 10 girls, as his cover picture and even added an offensive caption to it. Each one of us reported it but it is still there. In fact, that guy now uses a new cover picture of a new girls' group, clearly taken off some-one else's account.
  
  Another time, account of my friend's cousin was hacked and filled with pornographic images. She reported it to Facebook and later told me that Facebook replied her back saying that the account seems perfectly fine.
  
  Not to mention the filthy pages Facebook is full of, something which doesn't seem to bother the moderators much.
  
  Up until now, I haven't encountered any such case on google+, though probably because it doesn't deal with that many users and pictures but even then it still remains a drawback for Facebook.