New Data: Google+ Public Posts Decrease by 41% Over Past Two Months
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Re: New Data: Google+ Public Posts Decrease by 41% Over Past Two Months
#2So much for Google's grand "identity collector" dream.
Re: New Data: Google+ Public Posts Decrease by 41% Over Past Two Months
#3So much for Google's grand "identity collector" dream.
I don't know about that. How many people have "signed up" and are essentially transmitting their identity to google every time they search?
Even if you never use Google+ anymore, they've still got the browsing habits of the internet cognoscenti until people stop using their gmail and clear their cookies.
Re: New Data: Google+ Public Posts Decrease by 41% Over Past Two Months
#4The numbers are interesting, but interpreting it is hard. I noticed several non-tech people getting an G+ account, using it for some days, and leaving, because hardly anything was happening. That might be bad.
But the graphs mostly documents power users (g+-Twitter syncing), that might start to share some of there (less article-like) posts just with their circles, as the personal networks grow stronger and become more useful. That might be very good for G+.
After all, G+ cannot survive as a blogging platform.
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#5Google+ is better than Facebook for lots of reasons except for one important thing - nobody's on it and they're still using Facebook.
I would much prefer to use Google+, I prefer the interface, I like the Circles idea - everything sort of feels cleaner. But I can't convince any of my non-geek friends to join. They just don't see the point.
Re: New Data: Google+ Public Posts Decrease by 41% Over Past Two Months
#6So much for Google's grand "identity collector" dream.
I don't know about that. How many people have "signed up" and are essentially transmitting their identity to google every time they search? Even if you never use Google+ anymore, they've still got the browsing habits of the internet cognoscenti until people stop using their gmail and clear their cookies.
Didn't that already happen with any other Google service, like GMail or Google Docs? Log in, Google can track you.
Re: New Data: Google+ Public Posts Decrease by 41% Over Past Two Months
#7As a Google Apps user, I'm still pissed that I don't have access.
Re: New Data: Google+ Public Posts Decrease by 41% Over Past Two Months
#8Google+ is better than Facebook for lots of reasons except for one important thing - nobody's on it and they're still using Facebook. I would much prefer to use Google+, I prefer the interface, I like the Circles idea - everything sort of feels cleaner. But I can't convince any of my non-geek friends to join. They just don't see the point.
At least you can still follow interesting public "celebrities" and other techies.
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#9I used the hell out of it. Every day. And then the Real Name debacle happened. And I thought, "There's no way Google would screw this up. They'll retract any day now."
And here we are today. Early this week, I decided that was it. They obviously aren't going to see sense, and I can't risk losing my account. So I've stopped posting. I don't even check it, except when someone replies to something I've already posted.
If it weren't for Real Name, I think it'd be a lot more popular.
Say what you like about Facebook, but if they ban your account, you don't lose your email, documents, calendar, etc etc etc. You can't say that about Google.
Re: New Data: Google+ Public Posts Decrease by 41% Over Past Two Months
#10Google+ is better than Facebook for lots of reasons except for one important thing - nobody's on it and they're still using Facebook. I would much prefer to use Google+, I prefer the interface, I like the Circles idea - everything sort of feels cleaner. But I can't convince any of my non-geek friends to join. They just don't see the point.
For a lot of my 'non-geek' friends, the years of photos, connections, groups, etc makes the cost of switching too high.
For many, the idea of getting their photos out of Facebook is simply too daunting to consider.
They're happy to maintain a LinkedIn though, as that's seen as a 'different thing': for business.