Purpose: To inform the audience about the changes that Facebook has made and compare them to the features of Twitter and Google+. To analyze whether or not these changes are pushing users towards the other social media networks.

Organizational Pattern: Topical

COM Tech Uses: Web 2.0 Applications (Facebook, Twitter, Google+); Prezi

 

• Opening: FATWOOGLESPACE. An overwhelming word, filled completely with social media. Break it down and you get Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and MySpace.
  • History of Social Media
    • Started with AOL Instant Messanger
      • Feelings in away messages and profiles
      • Story (Schultze, 70) Quotes about how I was feeling
    • Moved to MySpace
      • Pictures
    • Moved to Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Google+
  • Change
    • Obsolete
      • Rhetorical Question (Rhetoric Guide, 66) How many of you still log on to your MySpace? [look up at audience]
    • Competition
      • One needs to be on top
    • Emotional Response
      • Frustration since it’s always changing
      • Confusion from new settings
      • Overwhelmed by keeping up
• In the past week Facebook has made obvious changes to keep themselves as one of the top social networking sites.
  • Instant changes
    • Story – from one website back to Facebook and it was different
  • Features [slow down when giving the details]
    • Timeline
      • Scrapbook
    • Gestures
      • No more “liking” [put hand quotations around liking]
    • Apps
      • Ask one time for permission
    • Ticker
      • Game notifications
    • Watch, Listen, Read
      • Hulu
      • Spotify
      • Yahoo News!
  • Old vs. New
    • Mary Davis
      • Move on & progress
    • Cartoon
      • Some don’t like it
      • Get used to it and you will
• Like Facebook, Google+ has some similar features that attract users to it.
  • Features [slow down for features]
    • Circles
      • Manage friends
    • News Stream
      • See what they are up to
    • Sparks
      • Content recommendations
        • What to post
        • Find more information
    • Hangouts
      • Group Video Chat
      • 10 people
  • Still new
    • Only 43 million users
    • Growing
  • Confusing
    • Katie Wheeler
      • Don’t know people who have it
      • Can’t find people easily
      • Have Facebook, why another social network
• IV.  Google+ isn’t the only social media network that is confusing to some. Twitter also seems hard for some to grasp.
  • Features [slow down for features – 9/15/11 Storytelling Evaluations]
    • Lists
      • Organize who you’re following
    • Follow Anyone
      • Friends and Family
      • Famous Celebrities
      • Two accounts for myself
    • #hashtags
      • Spread information
      • Organize it
  • Age Gap
    • Story – Advertising Class & Wally Metts
      • We might not use it
      • Employers will
      • Mostly file sharing
  • Overwhelming
    • Rhetorical Question – Who needs to know what you are up to every second? [make eye contact with audience 9/13/11 Be Still Hints]
• There is so much social media that we often don’t know what we would choose.
  • Accounts on all three
    • Use Twitter more
    • Dislike Facebook changes
    • Still learning Google+
  • Facebook changes are being vocalized
    • On their own website
      • Good or Bad Publicity
      • Want to be talked about
    • On the web
      • Fitting for their market
  • Opinion
    • Varying opinions
    • Effects us the most
      • We use these networks all the time
• Closing:
  • Facebook changes – get used to them
  • Twitter is short sweet, to the point
  • Google+ is still really new
  • In 140 characters, I can know what is going on in your life. In 4 requests, I can help you build a farm or help you kill a Zombie. And if you’re ready, in one invite you can be in one of my circles.