Social Media Marketing

Google+ is Google’s social media network.

Google+ is not Google’s first attempt at social media. Google has been involved in the development of social networks since 2004, when they introduced Orkut. This product did not gain much popularity in the U.S., but continued to be used in Brazil and India until 2014. Google Wave came out in 2009, and featured email conversations and other collaborative tools. Google Buzz appeared on the Internet in 2010 and enabled users to share email publically as well as privately. Google+ was launched in 2011.

“Officially, Google+ has more than 2.5 billion users, which would make it by far the largest social network in the world, with almost twice as many members as Facebook. However, even Google doesn't peddle this line.

The billions of accounts exist because every Gmail address automatically has a corresponding Google+ account, the vast majority of which have never even been logged into. The social network is widely derided as a wasteland, but Google hasn't released any official user numbers recently, so how many people actually actively use Google+?”

- See more at: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/51205/20150506/many-users-google-really.htm#sthash.UbZDFa2o.dpuf

In your Web browser, type plus.google.com. At the Google+ site Select Help from the navigation bar. Use the Help center to answer the following questions.

At the Help Center select Get Started with the new Google+:

1. What is “Your Stream” and what can you do there?

2. What is a +1?

Use the Search feature in the Google+ Help Center to search Circles.

1. What are Google+ Circles?

2. How do you use a Circle to follow someone?

3. Who can see your circles?

Use the Search feature in the Google+ Help Center to search Collections.

1. What is a Collection?

2. How are Google+ Collections different from Communities?
   

Use the Search feature in the Google+ Help Center to search Settings.

1. How do you locate Settings?

2. What Settings can you change?

3. How do you control what others see about you across all Google services? Hint: see Managing your account>Editing your account.