Google + Thoughts

be good if someone could chip in on this, I’ve been considering google + for promo too… it seems to do this thing where if u comment on something on youtube it links back to your google plus thing… so that might be good.. another way to draw attention to you business sort of thing via youtube comments… can’t think of any other way your youtube comments could be used as a promotional tool except spam and spam is awful.

Seems like noone here really use Google+, i said its save to assumed Google+ its just a waste of time then lol

Anyone use Path also ? how popular Path is in other country ? Since they just increased it to 500+ friends recently,
Its pretty popular social meds locally here, more than FB now i said, I guess cuz its more exclusive than FB, but yeah posting in Path i get more responds compared to in FB

I had tried to reply to this days ago but like many I couldn’t post replies for a couple of days. Luckily I type long replies in OneNote first just for that exact situation. So here is that reply:

I don’t know if it was the original intention of the post, but I can think of some rather unique advantages to Google+ over Facebook. On a personal level…nah, it’s kinda useless because even though it is actually superior to Facebook in several ways (I won’t get into why I think that because it just starts arguments) there’s no one there. What good is a social network that no one uses/posts on? My stance is that Google+ is superior but it’s empty so it’s inferior.

For a DJ though? Far superior, and for the exact same reasons it is inferior for personal use. EVERYONE is on Facebook. Sure, there are Groups and Pages dedicated to any given genre of music; but in a single hour there might be, say, a dozen mixtapes and two dozen new “remixes” or original songs posted to that Group or Page. If someone is perusing just that Page then I suppose that’s okay…but that’s what I use Soundcloud for. It’s dedicated and specialized and good at what it does. Thing is *most* people aren’t looking at Pages or Groups anymore…they just scroll their Newsfeed. Cutting through the signal-to-noise ratio to reach *new* people is really hard. Most people are just clicking on stuff where they already know the work of the content contributor. Like I said, when I look to discover new sounds and vibes I’m not on Facebook, I’m on Soundcloud. So it has the result that you only reach new people if one of your Friends share’s a link to something you posted, but even then you’re only reaching *their* friends. How many of their friends do you think care about your new tech house mix?

Flip to the Google+ side…different world. First, there aren’t as many people on the thing in the first place. That makes the noise part in the signal-to-noise ratio quieter. Second, most people are their for far more specialized purposes because they don’t have it connected to every other aspect of their lives. Circles have the advantage of filtering content in a far more specialized way. I found a few Communities that are down with what I do and every time I post a mixtape to my Mixcrate page I get far more hits to it from posting it on Google+ Communities than I do posting the same link on any Facebook Page or Group…period.

Now, if one is looking to raise their profile out there in the *real* world then they should have both. Undoubtedly they will focus on their Facebook Page more because that is the platform the people they are interacting with are using. You go where the people are. But that only works after you’ve attracted those people in the first place by the things you do in the *real* world. If what you’re trying to do is just spread the sound of what you do because you genuinely just want people to hear it because you know they’re of like mind and it will give them joy? Go where the mouse clicks are.

Google+ won’t make me famous…but it gets music into the ears of people I know are going to enjoy it.

I use G+ for my food blog (along with FB, Twitter, and Pinterest).

I notice most of the followers I get are from South America, which leads me to believe countries without a strong FB presence will get other folks.

All I do usually is post on G+ whatever I post on FB, but I don’t have a “D-Jam” G+ page.