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I just want to take a moment to say all the reason I love Google+ and hate Facebook. Let’s just start with the apps.

Look at Facebook up there. Look at it. Hideous blue, and it looks so cluttered. Why do I need that many things in there? I have never opened half the things that Facebook has. 

Now let’s look at Google+. Look at that sexy beast. 5 things. And they’re all things I will use. It just looks so much nicer. LOOK AT IT! I would marry it. I would have babies with it. Our babies would be beautiful.

Now let’s go deeper. Deeper. OH TOO DEEP! Ha, sex joke. 

1. News feed Vs Stream

Facebook’s news feed is hideous. It’s a mobile version, so I don’t want all the elements of the desktop version, especially who my friends are now friends with, along with pictures of all those people. I don’t care, all those people are horrible. Leave me alone.

And when someone posts a YouTube video and I go to watch it, oh but wait, when I click it I get taken into Facebook’s inbuilt browser, that I have to wait to load, then click on the video, then it doesn’t even open in the native application, but rather on the shitty mobile web.

Now let’s go to Google+. The stream is similar to Facebook’s news feed, except not shit. Someone posts a YouTube and I open it, BAM, opens through the native application. Hell, if someone even posts a picture from another site, it opens straight in app, rather than going into an inbuilt browser and loading. It’s just so much faster.

2. Chat Vs. Huddle

Facebook chat on my desktop is bad enough, why would I want to use it on my phone. There is no point. Can I use it to organize plans while I’m out? No, because it doesn’t send me notifications, so I have to stay in the app, and half the time it’s slow as a snail or something slower. Like a slow snail. Sure, I could use messages, but 9/10 times when someone sends me a message I don’t get notified.

Then there’s Google+’s Huddle, which is amazing. I have been using it a lot lately. Sure, it’s been to message my mum who is sitting a few feet away from me, but I still use it. Once more people get G+, I can see it being better than even iMessages (which I haven’t used but seem to be confusing from what I’ve read).

3. Photos Vs Photos

Facebook mobile sucks for uploading photos. It takes forever, and usually uploads them lower quality then if I did it on my desktop. Then, if I want to see photos someone has posted, I have to find their profile by searching them, then wait for their profile to load, then find their albums, then find the photo of them in a bikini so I can stare at them. It makes stalking a hell of a lot harder.

Then there’s Google+, where if I want to upload a picture I hit pictures, then ‘From your phone’ and bam, all my pictures from my phone. I tick which ones I want and can share them immediately. If I want to upload to an album it’s slightly harder, but nowhere near as annoying as with Facebook.

4. Friends Vs. Circles

Facebook is annoying. This is the fourth time I have said this. Whenever someone wants to add you, you have to accept them. You decline them, they add you again. This happens over and over until one of you die. Then, when you do add them if you want to find them again you have to search for them.

Google+ is so much better. They add you to a circle, you don’t have to add them. It’s like Twitter for friends! They can’t even message me to remind me to add them to a circle, because G+ doesn’t have messages, and if for whatever reason I do actually have to add them (because they’re family, old friends, whatever) I can just stick them in the circle “People I hate” and set all my posts to not go to them. It’s kind of genius.

All Google+ is missing is stupid games for me to waste hours on.