{"id":13,"date":"2011-09-18T13:44:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T21:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-09-18T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T21:44:19","slug":"google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/2011\/09\/18\/google\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18\" title=\"google-facebook-battle-over-social-search-internet\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/files\/2011\/09\/google-facebook-battle-over-social-search-internet-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/files\/2011\/09\/google-facebook-battle-over-social-search-internet-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/files\/2011\/09\/google-facebook-battle-over-social-search-internet.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/>After hearing about Google+ for the first time, I was honestly a little irritated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Social networking sites have clearly took the internet by storm over the past few years, with Facebook and Twitter being the obvious front-runners thus far. Is there really room for another social networking site for us to poor our lives onto?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianmarketingblog.com\/archives\/2011\/08\/its_a_marathon_not_a_sprint_1.html\">this blog<\/a>, and have to say I totally agree. Although Google+ has received much following very quickly, it&#8217;s been the brand behind the networking site that has helped Google make that\u00a0achievement, not the innovation behind it.\u00a0Will members continue to maintain their loyalty to Google+? I think not. After registering just to see what Google+ was all about, I didn&#8217;t see any new features I hadn&#8217;t already seen on other social networking sites. Essentially, it was just another Facebook with a different name behind it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hearing about Google+ for the first time, I was honestly a little irritated. Social networking sites have clearly took the internet by storm over the past few years, with Facebook and Twitter being the obvious front-runners thus far. Is there really room for another social networking site for us to poor our lives onto? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/katesun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}