Newhouse Social Media

Newhouse Social Media

Newhouse Social Media  //  Curated by colleagues from the 2012 MAYmester PRL530 Social Media for Public Relations class in the Public Relations Master's Program at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.

Jul 6 / 5:17pm

[Quora.com] How Google+ Shows That Google Still Doesn't Understand Social

In July of 2010, I wrote a brief answer stating that then-Googler Paul Adams' internal presentation about social (see: http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/0...) indicated that the state-of-the-art in thinking about social inside Google was much further behind than previously thought (see: Yishan Wong's answer to Should Facebook be worried about Google Me?). Rebekah Cox concurred with me in the comments and a few other people asked us to elaborate. We declined to at the time, because it's complicated.

However, this week, Google's early release of Google+ demonstrates why.

Let's first crack some myths:

Check out the full post over on Quora.

Touches on privacy comparisons between Google+ and Facebook, as well as a possible trend of changes in our socially accepted rules and norms for social behaviors online.

What do you think?

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