AOW 1/23: Google+ v. Facebook

This week's article is from FoxNews through Laptopmag.com, a TechMediaNetwork Company. Laptopmag.com is a website that gives insightful reviews on tech gadgets and accessories. They have experience with internet apps and have the experience and knowledge to analyze Facebook and Google+. They compare and contrast the features of two similar and predominant social networks, Facebook and Google+. They breakdown the specifics of each site and compare them with specific rhetorical aspects, simplicity and capabilities, of each feature. They broke down: design, posting, sharing media, managing friends, following people, messaging, chat, and video, entertainment, and mobile. The article says that Google+ is the supreme social media site, but believes that Facebook's volume belittles the capabilities and simplicity of Google+. The purpose was to compare the websites and to show that Google+ is something people should be involved with as an aside of their Facebook account. The arrangement of the piece is very consistent, with a short exposition and conclusion at the beginning and end. In between those sections was analysis of each aspect. They were separated by a break to know when a new section began (Delivery). Within the subsections, the arrangement introduced both sites and followed with a paragraph that listed and explained the extra features that showed supremacy with either Facebook or Google+. In the text, the author qualifies his statements often by saying, "Both have video calling, but..." This pattern comes up very often to show that one site will have better capabilities than the other and explain why. This article was probably written to people who are either new to social networking or interested in creating an account with Google+. The author assumes that most of the readers have a Facebook account because he adds more detail to his description of Google+ to have the reader create and equivalent with Facebook. The author proved his purpose by comparing both social network sites in a simple arrangement that clearly spelled out the basis of his data.