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what is up guys it's TV with a review of Google+ now this is basically Google's answer to facebook it is a fully integrated social network and it's actually pretty cool now i will say right up front does not this is still in beta so they're definitely things that i need to work out lots of bugs and whatnot but I'm not only gonna hold that against them of course this is still fairly new but the core of it is really solid let me give you guys a little overview of it as soon as you guys can see here this is kind of the main page so you guys can see there's a lot of stuff for example you can do hangouts a lock on stuff but let me kind of explain it to you one by one so the first thing is your string now this is basically like your wall so you can you post status updates or whatever so if I can say this is a status I can spell it right and so yeah you can do that and also add photos you can add videos links and locations so you know very similar to Facebook and another thing is you can actually add exactly who you want to share it with so by default it will show both friends but if I click add more people you can add people from different circles and I'll explain what circles aren't just a little bit so you but you can customize exactly who these statuses go out to or you can just make it public which works pretty well so if i want to just click that it'll pop up and one thing i have noticed is that it is very very cool as far as how this works when you post a status it will it will automatically update like for example like one of your friends is on it will show up absolutely immediately i was on a call with somebody and they literally salt within a second it was very very impressive so moving down here you guys can see some of the things that i'll be just be using fills a example going to pegu pool which i don't agree with google at all but you guys can see here some of the things so i can go do his profile or just hover over it and say that we're friends and if i wanted to i could change his circle or change him in my circle or whatever i'm liking also plus one which is basically like thumbs up on facebook very simple but you know not a big deal you can also comment and share as you guys can see here I've already done that so a couple of things so if i scroll down here for example is what a video looks like if someone shares it here's a photo in fact i'll take this photo for an example the photos are actually not bad now the problem is it's not the best browser in the world but if i want to i can add a photo here i can add a tag or i can actually go ahead and view the photo details Jason see here is taken an iphone for all the kinds of information which is actually really pretty handy so let's get out of this so this is generally the how the wall works but let me give you guys a little example of circles now circles are kind of like creating groups of people that you want so for example you can have groups for friends unless I want to share something with my friends I can have something that goes through specifically family just general people acquaintances people I'm following it's a little bit complicated but you could pretty much do whatever you want so they actually create a new circle here so taking Phil's example I'm going to call it gooble I'm they're actually going to use that word again but so here we go so this is a new one so let's say I want to add a couple people so I add nick and i'll add Phil so as you guys can see here now if I go ahead and take a look at this now I can just send an update to these guys or make sure they see something specific or not and if i want i can just delete the circle too and it's got some cool animations it'll kind of roll off the screen which is I think it's kind of neat moving on there's also a very cool feature called sparks now this is almost like an RSS feed for the Internet so for example if I want to add something I've already actually add a couple sparks so for example I can see anything about nikon say anything about youtube or if i will go on to go into sports i can add something like oh i don't know i could add iphone iphone 5 rather i can add spark it'll automatically show all the kinds of fake information that's definitely not real about the iphone 5s if you guys look up at the top of the screen you'll find that the new dart title bars actually use so if you guys don't have google plus you'll probably notice that on google com there's now a black bar as opposed to the standard looking one well there is a reason for this so for example if I want to share on files on my gmail I could just click on this and it's across pretty much all Google things so I could just click on this and send an update straight from pretty much any website it's almost like having a extension connected into your browser in addition you can also take a look at notifications so if anybody you know Plus Ones your post or anything like that you can definitely do it from there now one of the learn things i do want to show you guys and actually won't give you a full demo in this video is hangouts now hangouts is very similar to allowing you to use like skype video chat in the on your browser either I began I don't want to get too in-depth into that I've already made a separate video on that so if you guys are interested in that definitely go ahead and be sure to hit the annotation on the screen right now anyway guys that's it from a review of Google+ so they're definitely some pros and cons I mean on the really good side I love hangouts absolutely fantastic feature circles works really nicely i like having really fine grained control with who i share what with and everything and also if you're already big into google if you're already having you gmail and android and you really invested in the Google ecosystem then it's going to be really simple for you to get up and running very simply and easily with Google+ on the other hand though it's not quite perfect so for example it's definitely very buggy and glitchy right now and since it's in beta I really won't hold that against them I'm sure most of the time most of the things that need to be fixed will definitely be fixed by the time the Google+ is released over there's also some core functionality this is just flat-out missing so for example there is no way to send messages so you know private message anything like that it's just not there right now and of course technically you know you could gmail or use Gmail or email or something like that but what's one extra step that you really shouldn't have to have there should be some kind of messaging system even if it's gmail built into google plus I think they really should do that but on the whole of it I am impressed with Google+ I definitely will be using it for quite a while but I think one of the biggest things is just the people if they can get the people on there and they can work out some of those core functionality I absolutely will have no issues whatsoever recommending Google+ to you guys