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The Policies Of Communication Strategies Google + Released Caused A Protest By Users

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3.3 Stakeholders’ responses
Users
The policies of communication strategies Google+ released caused a protest by users. Google users signed an Anti-Plus petition with over 180,000 signatures to revolt Google’s decision (Hern, 2013). The advertising strategy did not make much impact on users as they are used to contacting by Facebook. According to Lo (2012), the theme message of Google’s advertising emphasized the differentiation but not the necessity of new functions. Users would not switch to new social media with many functions they already used on the old one; in addition, their social circles have completed on previous one.

Competitors
About competitors, Facebook responded new system and functions to the launch of Google+ (Reed, 2011). With regard to the similarity, Facebook has strived for developing new services, like Game Trick, which can compete with other rivals (Parr, 2011); in addition to buy other social networking service, especially cross-platform messaging apps for mobile, such as Instagram and WhatsApp.

Developers
Refer to developers, Google provided a good platform for developers but the capabilities are still limited. ‘Once Google opens up more write access to other clients, third-party contributions to the Google+ ecosystem will start to get interesting.’ (Jon Mitchell, 2012) Moreover, Google+ was absent from Google I/O conference agenda. It was none of sessions focus on Google+ in 2014, compared to last year it was an entire two-day track including 15

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