CIT 154 Book Report

Sam’s Teach Yourself Google+ in ten minutes, Second Edition
Patrice-Anne Rutledge
Publish Date 21 June 2012

This book teaches you how to effectively create a Google+ account or profile in literally ten minutes. It explains it great easy to read and follow detail how to navigate around what could otherwise be a confusing site. At first glance, the home page or profile page can be overwhelming if you don’t know what to do, I started my Google+ profile when it first came out and never did anything with it because I didn’t understand it, and I consider myself a computer savvy person. I found this to be much like Facebook the more I read the book and followed the steps. You can choose a profile picture, cover photo from a standard gallery or your own, upload photo albums or pictures (controlling who has access to them). Have friends or circles; control the notification settings and how and when you receive them. You can also connect and upload contact via iPhone or an android phone or device. Of course there are a multitude of games that are available to play. There is also the chat option, which allows the user to chat with a friend much like you would face to face except that it is on the computer. Google+ plus has one feature that Facebook does not, it’s called “Hangout” you can have friends all talking in a video chat, of course you can choose who you want to hang out with and invite others to join if you like. This would be great for out of town family to talk on a regular basis! You can also use your IPhone or Android devices for this feature as well. You can also use a group chat much like a chat room too. During these hang out sessions you can also add applications and documents for others to see as well. Screen share is another option if multiple people are collaborating on a project or anything else that requires multiple inputs. I followed the steps verbatim (except for the business aspect of it) as I read and followed the book it read just like a recipe of sorts. I found that I like this book better than the “dummy” series. Those books seem to talk down to reader and throw a lot of big words at the reader that will confuse them if they don’t know where to even start. This book starts out easy and continues that way without making you feel like you are an idiot. This book can be accessed through the online library at Proquest.