Article: Google’s Black-Box Social Network By Saul Hansell
Source: nytimes
On Tuesday, Google started a campaign to get people to create profiles, using the Google search engine. The rules and norms of all of Google’s features are troublesome for users to understand. Also, Google’s social network offer limited options on settings and the user has little control on who views the information. The author belief that Google's features are good for search engine, map site and e-mail service. But Google’s strategy for creating a social network is not a good method on less the company improves its services by making a friendly user interface for its users.
This article is interesting to me and the class because most of my classmates use these social networks such as MySpace, Twitter and Facebook to create a profile page. Also, this article shows us the problems with Google’s social network features. In addition, the article is of interest because it shows how user expectations can really defined a high standard of social network.
