Significant News Story #1

CNN – Google+ vs. Facebook: The war for online social games
In this news story, Google+ is trying to compete with Facebook for online games. While Google+ has 16 new games such as Angry Birds, Facebook has time on its side. They have over 800 million users in comparison to 25 million for Google+. Facebook has a huge lead and has been around for longer. Google+ is fairly new but rising up in the ranks for social networking. I found this story interesting because I am a Facebook user and I have also heard a lot about Google+ but I never really knew what it was. I also found it interesting that Google+ has the guts to go up against such a large corporation such as Facebook. For me, I don’t really care for Google+ much. It’s too much like Skype. So I thought it was crazy for Google+ to even think of competing against Facebook in anything. I also play games such as Café World and Farmville. I know so many people that play those games and more that I don’t think that anyone is really going to go for Google+ instead of Facebook games.
What makes this story news worthy first is that it has immediacy because it is happening right now. Second, it has proximity because Google+ and Facebook can both be accessed from anyone’s home as long as they have an internet connection. Third, it has prominence because almost everyone has heard of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Fourth, it has novelty because Google+ is new and it’s a new battle between the two that has never occurred before and fifth, because it has conflict between the two companies that own Google+ and Facebook.
If you would like to see the article here is the link:
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-09/tech/google.facebook.social.war_1_social-games-social-network-mark-zuckerberg?_s=PM:TECH