It’s time for Google to get social. Google Plus is the successful effort of this world-famous search engine. Through Google+, you can share your photos and do video chat with instant messaging. Interestingly, you can share your video chat with ten people at the same time.
Google is working hard to promote and open the services in public domain for everyone, as the service is available to a limited amount of Google Plus members only. What makes a big difference here is the absence of “share with everyone” option. This option is quite famous in other social networking sites around the globe.
Personalize Your Account
You can personalize your account here at Google+, just like you do it on your Facebook account. Then, what is the difference between Google Plus and a Facebook account? Google Plus allows its users to make friends through categories. These special categories can be school friends, relatives, etc. This is the key difference between a Facebook and a Google+ account. Basically these “Circles” are aimed at classifying the key disadvantages of a Facebook or a twitter account.
It’s Quite Convenient
Today, it has become a general trend that people love to use real life circles to express them. Moreover, Google Plus users don’t have to sign in again and again to see current notifications on their accounts. They can check their status on the Google’s main page and keep on tracking. For more ease, a drop down window can help a user to check all the new conversations and comments on his page. You can also get rid of some annoying posts and comments by following a simple tip.
If you comment on a post and the commented post gets popular in short time and you start receiving a lot of messages, then it becomes quite annoying and you definitely want to get rid of it. You can use the “mute” feature to stop such annoying messages. If you think you want to check the impact of your post or comment, then you can “undo mute” the post again. Soon, you will start receiving the comments from other users on the same post. It works very well if you want to stop comments for the time being.
“Hangout” – A Very Special Feature
Google Plus has been planted well with its interesting features. It can give tough competition to Facebook, but at the same time, it can also occupy the space from Skype. “Hangout” feature of Google Plus will let you do conference calls by pulling your favorite groups into it. No matter where you are and what you doing, you can do simultaneous video chat with your friends through hangout.
Do You Want to Hide Your “Circle” Members?
It’s not hard to make such a useful amendment on your Google+ account. Here, you can easily choose to show the certain circle members and those members who are keeping you in their circle.
You can do it by clicking on the left sidebar of your Google Plus page where everyone from your circle is visible. Under the list, you will see that there is a link “change who is visible here.” You can click and easily get the options for further amendment. This will automatically save your privacy from others. It might be possible that you don’t want to show your close affiliations to someone. So, do it here and secure your privacy.
Like safeguarding your privacy, you can also make big changes on your profile by clicking the “right sidebar.” By doing this, you can add your other profiles, web links, and blogs as well.
You Can Edit Your Intro & Bio
If you are stuck with the old look and bio on your profile, then it’s time to change it and give it a new look. In order to do so, you can click at any particular content, which you want to change. After clicking, you can edit it easily. The basic questions which may appear on the page will be introduction, bragging rights, occupation, employment, education, places lived, etc. If you don’t want to show your profile on Google Plus, then don’t check the “checkbox.” It will save all your private information from other members.
How To Customize Your Photo Gallery
Don’t you want to make your photo gallery attractive for others? If yes, then arrange the photos which you have uploaded. Luckily, Google+ shows 5 slots for your images. You can upload same images of the similar size. Once they are uploaded, they will look like a big single image. This is another big difference between Google Plus and a Facebook account, as there is no such option available for users elsewhere except for Google+. For editing, you can click on the button at the right corner of your page. Once you click it, you can easily edit your page. Have you made any amendments to your page?
This guest post is contributed by Kevin Moor, who writes for topspeedscan.com, which is seeking ways how to speed up my pc.
