CHAPTER SEVEN
How Can I Hang Out with My Friends Using Google+?
In this chapter:
+ Having a Live Text Chat in Google+
+ Setting Up Google Voice and Video
+ Adjusting Chat Settings
+ Having a Live Video and Audio Chat
+ Discovering What Hangouts Are All About
Sharing posts with your friends and commenting on their posts is all well and good, but sometimes you want to reach out and talk to people directly.
Google+ is incredible for communication, going way beyond the messages and posts that you leave for friends on most social networks. Google has integrated its powerful communication tools, enabling you to have live chats (including text, audio, and video) with other people using Google+.
You can have live conversations in Google+ two distinct ways: Chat and Hangouts. Chat is a one-to-one communication tool, whereas Hangouts, Google’s new and highly interactive group messaging service, enables you to talk to multiple people at once.
In this chapter, I show you how to use Google+ to communicate with friends.