Get Your Selfie The Desired Attention

Are you one heck of a selfie person? You think you've got great clicks of yourself, but then again, everyone out there does. After all, it is one huge trend.

Furthermore, are you aware that people often crticize selfies as an unnecessary act of narcissism? Well, in such scenario, you really need to show them that your selfie isn't just another one by making it stand out.

Check out this awesome Infographic to get yourself that kind of selfie.

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Farewell To Orkut: Google To Shut Down It's First Social Network

Orkut, the first social networking site, launched by Google in January 2004, is now to be shut down on Sept 30 after more than 10 years of service.

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Orkut had many active users in Brazil and India but didn't have a firm place in rest of the places. Nevertheless, it has a unique acetic feeling, nostalgia to it, for all those who had ever been an active user on Orkut.
Existing users will be able to export all their data using Google Takeout but creating new Orkut accounts won't be possible as per the announcement made by Google's Orkut team on 30th June in their blog post.

Tchau Orkut 

Monday, June 30, 2014 | 10:23 AM
Ten years ago, Orkut was Google’s first foray into social networking. Built as a “20 percent” project, Orkut communities started conversations, and forged connections, that had never existed before. Orkut helped shape life online before people really knew what “social networking” was.
Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell (or, tchau). We'll be focusing our energy and resources on making these other social platforms as amazing as possible for everyone who uses them.
We will shut down Orkut on September 30, 2014. Until then, there will be no impact on current Orkut users, to give the community time to manage the transition. People can export their profile data, community posts and photos using Google Takeout (available until September 2016). Starting today, it will not be possible to create a new Orkut account.
Orkut, the service, may be going away, but all of those incredible communities Orkut users have created will live on. We are preserving an archive of all public communities, which will be available online starting September 30, 2014. If you don't want your posts or name to be included in the community archive, you can remove Orkut permanently from your Google account. Please visit our Help Center for further details. 
It's been a great 10 years, and we apologize to those still actively using the service. We hope people will find other online communities to spark more conversations and build even more connections for the next decade and beyond.
Posted by Paulo Golgher, Engineering Director

Google is now completely focussing on Google+ , which recently celebrated it's third Anniversay in social networking.

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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.

   

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