Google+ is a social media platform developed by Google that allows users to share content and communicate in different ways. It has six major features: circles that allow customization of friend groups; live video chat for event planning; ability to watch YouTube videos together in groups; curating content by interests using Spark; auto-uploading photos and videos to the cloud for easy sharing; and allowing users to completely deactivate their accounts and download their data.

1. Is a multinational Internet search technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops numerous Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising.

2. Six Major Features of Google+ 1. Easy sharing (Circles): Circles unlike in Facebook let you sort out the friends with ease. These enable you to create mini friend lists within your larger network. Easy customization of groups with drag-and-drop actions to limit who can see which of your updation, all together help you make your selection. One might question as to what makes it different from Facebook. It too gives you the option to customize.

3. 2. Live Video Chat to plan details of an event:Google+ comes with a free, multi-user video chat feature hailed Hangouts. Google has added the smart notable feature of video chat.You can easily manage the event-planning with the live video chat option that Google + includes.

4. 3. Watch a YouTube video in real-time with friends (Hangouts): Hangouts is one cool feature of Google +. Hangouts allows up to ten people to group video chat and watch YouTube videos. When you start the video, the group chat mutes everyone by default and a ‘Push to Talk’ button lets everyone enjoy YouTube videos and discuss it with comments. Facebook definitely doesn’t allow you to do so.

5. 4. Curate content as per your interests (Spark) Google’s social network that in an entertaining way lets you organize your content according to your interest. Blogs and other content from the entire web depending upon terms that you enter. You can save terms and return to them at any time when you want to browse new content and you can add circles or individuals to an item to share it.

6. 5. Upload photos and videos to the cloud and share them when you want (Instant Upload) Google+ mobile apps that will have an auto-upload feature updates your photos or videos you take on your phone directly to your account and you don’t have to make extra efforts to share the same. You can customize the settings before they are visible on your profile this way you will keep a check on the pictures being uploaded. In Facebook, you have to make extra efforts to upload pictures and share them with your friends.

7. 6. Easy Quitting Friends can still invite you to events, tag you in photos or ask you to join groups after your account is deactivated. Google+ on the other hand lets people quit easily and completely. Just like Facebook does, Google+ lets you download all your data so you won’t lose anything if you quit.