I just can't get past the feeling that Google+ violates my privacy. I've started using Facebook which I ultimately regret because it's invasive, too controlling, and has stupidity embedded in it. In the end these kinds of forums are the only ones I find worthwhile anyway. I don't care what my real friends think about what I like, and don't want anyone else I know to judge me. Why am I letting people I don't even know control the way I express myself to my friends anyway?
Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
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#22Users are one thing, active users are another. How many posts are being made? Are they just signing up for these accounts and never coming back? There's a reason Facebook and Twitter quote active users when announcing how many people are actually using their products.
True dat. I have a mere ~30 peeps in my circles, most of joined early but are not tech geeks. The latest months only ONE of them has been posting sporadically.
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#23Users are one thing, active users are another. How many posts are being made? Are they just signing up for these accounts and never coming back? There's a reason Facebook and Twitter quote active users when announcing how many people are actually using their products.
I accidentally created an account during Android phone activation, as it was very unclear (already had one on other account and didnt want another). They could get up to 700k a day like this, maybe this is most of them.
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#24Users are one thing, active users are another. How many posts are being made? Are they just signing up for these accounts and never coming back? There's a reason Facebook and Twitter quote active users when announcing how many people are actually using their products.
Yes. For example, the Facebook numbers are always number of people who've logged in at least once in the last 28 or 30 days (or something) -- I'm sure the G+ people are computing this internally. The fact they don't report it implies it may be a bit low?
Oh but its just a google login, most people will have one. You need to measure views or posts...
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#25Google can try and play stupid as much as they want by reporting signups and not actives but I'm glad it isn't fooling the HN crowd.
Facebook long changed the game by reporting actives. Since, startups like twitter and foursquare have followed suit by reporting actives. It is very apparent what google's refusal to report actives means.
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#26All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me. I absolutely love it. It's become my social media platform of choice, in fact. Maybe it's just that I have enough interesting people to read that it's worth it to me. I'm not sure. I've never been a fan of Facebook. I've had an account for years, but that's pretty much entirely for API testing. I can count the number of things I've posted to Facebook in the past year on one ha…
I thought I would like it, and I do find some good content there, mostly blog length stuff. However I dont really want to blog on it, and prefer twitter for short stuff. I do see more g+ posts here too which reflects the good stuff.
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#27Google can try and play stupid as much as they want by reporting signups and not actives but I'm glad it isn't fooling the HN crowd. Facebook long changed the game by reporting actives. Since, startups like twitter and foursquare have followed suit by reporting actives. It is very apparent what google's refusal to report actives means.
Google is reporting nothing in this case. It's some dude trying to deduce the user count from other information.
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Indeed. I know lots of people who signed up for G+ to check it out, I only know two people who still actively post to it. I just checked my news feed, and it's entirely filled with posts by celebs (famous photographers, web celebs, Google folks I follow, etc), and two posts by my actual friends. If this is at all representative, I suspect the percentage of active users to total users is pretty abysmal.
It's definitely way more barren on G+ than Facebook, but I think that part of this is because on G+, users are more likely to make posts that can only be seen by a small subset of the total number of users in their circles. On Facebook, most users still make posts visible to everyone on their friends list. I personally have a "close friends" circle of about 15 people and we typically just share content with each othe…
I think you have a really good point about circles being smaller, a side effect of publishing only to certain circles will result in less updates seen, no matter how we try to slice it.
I find G+ posts to be generally of much higher quality, especially shared things.
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I agree... I see more dead accounts than live ones now. I don't think this service is in the success category at all at the moment. I still use it fairly actively, though.
Or maybe they just aren't posting to you? A few months back I read the claim that there's twice as much private sharing as public.
I've heard this argument (mostly from Googlers) before. I don't buy it though, as I occasionally (rarely now) see friends post things and get zero comments. The same comments will get tons of comments on Facebook.
This thing has largely failed outside of tech circles and twitter style (celebrity) newsfeeds at the moment. Hopefully that will change, as I find it superior to Facebook in virtually every way.
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#30Don't forget, if you create a Google account you automatically have a Google+ account.
I made a new Gmail account for my mom a few days, now she has a Google+ account too but I doubt she'll ever touch it.