5 reasons why you should switch to Google Plus

Bangalore: Although it's too early to speculate on the fate of Facebook, Google Plus, the social networking arm from the internet giant Google, offers many a thing from ease of use to data privacy that are worth to switch over to it. Creating a new breakthrough, Google has finally come up with its own social networking platform which is rich in content and features. ComScore has revealed that Google Plus has received 20 million viewers in the first three weeks of its operation. Predicted to become the vital part of Google's whole identity, certain features of Google plus give us a valid reason to consider leaving Facebook for Google Plus.

1. Integration with Google services

The integration capability of Google Plus is regarded as the biggest factor that drives people close to this social networking website. It's being integrated with all the products and services from Google which allows the users to monitor all Google Plus events while being tuned to any of its services. Google will gradually bring its social networking tools and features in all its online services including You Tube. Most of Google products now feature Google Plus in their navigation bar which enables you to be active on its social media without signing off from the website.

2. Data backup

Personal data protection has always been a nightmare for Facebook users and Google Plus is all equipped to solve this trouble in their social networking platform. While Facebook dema

nds you to make some of your personal data public which is hard to delete, Google Plus provides the freedom take back all the data you have entered in the website. The site has a special tool named ?Data Liberation? with which you can download data from different Google services such as Google profile, Picasa, Google+ stream etc.

3. Group chat

Google plus has added greater value to its social networking arm with the strong group chat feature which is said to be one of the biggest disadvantages of its rival Facebook. The webs

ite has made it very simple to create a special group video chat with its Hangouts features. Hangouts features a very sleek interface that does not need additional downloads and it's free forever. This amazing feature can include 10 people in the same video chat room at a time. In addition, other feature called Huddle enables users with group text chats.

4. Great mobile app

Migrating content from your mobile phone to Google plus is created in such a way that it?s very effortless, cleaner and is a lot more functional with Google+ mobile app. Goo

gle Plus is eying to attract the huge Android user base with its mobile app that is fast becoming a seamless appendage of the social media.

5. Privacy settings

Google Plus has created the concept of privacy settings much simpler in comparison with the settings in various websites which may lead the users to great blunders. With the f

eature known as Circles, you can create a different page of yours for different groups of people. This gives you the freedom to share the content with the friend circles that you want to. Separate circles for your family, friends, colleagues etc can be created here.

Source: siliconindia.com