A totally roasting weekend (eating, funnily enough, “roast lamb”) has had me considering whether or not to sacrifice all my current social media platforms and tools for a solitary presence using Google Plus, or Google+.
I am not sold on the argument that Google+ is another passing fad, as already I can see how more in control of my content I am. The idea of “circles” certainly looks a better privacy proposition for the everyday user like me.
Wondering if the News of the World would have found a way to hack them though?
Anyway, I have migrated all my Facebook (FB) images into picasa, and so by default, into google+ and next I will see what other existing media and data I have on line can also be migrated.
I also have researched a little about google plus and came across “How Google+ Will Balkanize Your Social Life”
WTF has the term “Balkanize” really got to do with Social Media?
Maybe the idea of segragating content in a more controlled way is a step forward from what we all experience now. I mean, FB is forever being slated for exposing privacy flaws concerning the data WE put on line.
Balkanization though?
The word itself has such emotional overtones as a result of the “Terrible Nineties” in this region where I now live.
Whatever.
Maybe Google+ is what the Balkans need though as a tool for open communiaction without “Big Brother” (Veliki Brat) being able to snoop and thereby snuff out dissent.
For more about Balkanization click HERE
