Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Google+ & New Facebook Chat

I've recently adopted the new social platform developed by Google as well as the new Facebook chat format, while the former is voluntary and latter is involuntary. To my disappointment, I wish there was a feature on Google+ where it can automatically import all my contact from Facebook then I can manage the circles accordingly. But obviously that wouldn't fit too well with Google, given that this new platform is intended to compete with Facebook. However, wouldn't it be more rational to include your existing social network in Facebook to Google so you instantaneously have your social communities ported over to start experience the difference that Google+ offers? In this case, I only have few friends manually added to my network and have nothing really compare to. Yet, I have to give Google the benefit of the doubt that this platform currently is still in beta stage. Now comes the new Facebook chat, either the product manager really never thought it through or Facebook has nothing better to do than switching around its formats, once again confusing users all over the places. The new chat bar is always sticking on your right side of screen and showing all contact it thinks you want to chat with, regardless of its online or offline status. Now, why would you want to chat with somebody who is offline in the first place? Now, I know it is quite difficult to satisfy 500 million users all at once with a feature change, but at least make sure these changes make sense on the rudimentary level.

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