Google Drive has transformed the way information is saved, accessed, and shared throughout the world since its creation in April of 2012. Google Drive allows people to access information at the ease of their fingertips. Google Drive allows its users to create documents and share these documents with other users, and allows users to access information sent to them. The connectivity of Google Drive allows information to travel at extremely fast speeds, and facilitates the actions of businesses, school projects, and many other things. Google Drive has somewhat of a social aspect as it allows the users of a shared document to communicate through a chat box and make comments on certain parts of the document.
Businesses can use google drive in many ways. Employees and employers can share documents with each other, and work on them together until they are complete. Google Drive also has a feature in its iPad app that allows users to digitally sign certain documents that require signatures, which may ease the process of approving business transactions and facilitate the actions that businesses take. Google Drive actually provides an instructional page about how to properly use it for work and business related things. Documents are automatically saved with every edit, and can be accessed with any device. Documents can be shared with anybody, even people that don’t use Google Drive. This really can facilitate business communications and allows people to work together on projects without having to meet face to face, which can save companies lots of money on travel. Google Drive is overall beneficial for businesses to use.
Along with businesses using Google Drive, many individual people use accounts for social reasons. Many people have multiple accounts, dedicating one or more for strictly working purposes, and another for soicial interactions, and they can switch seemlessely between the accounts, keeping all of their files safe. Google Drive has social features including profile pictures and a group chat feature, which allows users to communicate with each other while working on a document, without leaving the document. Google Drive accounts are also connected to Google’s social networking program, Google Plus, which allows users to connect as “friends”, share photos, upload statuses, see their friends statuses, video chat, and direct message. Google Plus also gives users the ability to recieve world news, access email, and search the internet. Google Plus also has an entertainment feature, Google Play, which allows its users to download games, apps, movies and TV shows, music, and books. Google Drive, all though mostly used for work, has allows people access to acceptable social, entertainment, and news features, and can be used recreationally for just about anything.
Although it is a great website, it can be abused. People may share fake information with colleagues competing for a promotion or fighting not to get let go, which may throw the colleagues off and end up hurting them. Google Drive should only be used if all of the information is accurate, if it is not accurate, its functionality for businesses dissipates.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/25/4265746/google-drive-gets-more-social-with-chat-and-profile-photos
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