Social media across the world – the case of google plus

The one world family vision is that social media and social networking can serve a bigger purpose. So naturally google’s ethically charged mission statement/credo caught our eye. e.g. ” Point 2: It’s best to do one thing really, really well.We do search. With one of the world’s largest research groups focused exclusively on solving search problems, we know what we do well, and how we could do it better.” [Taken from http://www.google.com/about/company/philosophy/%5D. Now how does google plus fit into this? Doesn’t it seem that google plus is not focussing on search but searching for facebook 2? Have they broken their own credo and got into trouble, spending large amounts promoting googleplus in a vain attempt to copy facebook? What do you think? Do you believe in networking for social good? Let us know your thoughts!

One world family team

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