Those numbers sound great, but they don't really mean anything unless those users are contributing content and establishing a community within Google+. It takes all of 10 seconds to become a member, but Google+ needs a better way of encouraging new users to complete their profile information, make posts, and add their friends.
Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm curious, what are all the ways in which you find it superior? I agree that circles are better than Facebook friend lists, but G+ seems to lack some features that others find essential on Facebook, like event creation. I've heard a lot of people say that's the biggest reason they have a Facebook account. Also, there's no direct messaging system, at least that I'm aware of. FB messaging has basically replaced email for a lot of people. I suppose I could put someone into their own circle, but that seems rather inelegant.
My biggest issue with it is the lag, which is ironic for a product by Google. Sometimes it takes 30+ seconds for images to load. This significantly affects the user experience, since I usually don't wait, I just move onto something else.
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#33All 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…
"It's become my social media platform of choice, in fact."
Diaspora is my social media platform of choice for the freedom it provides. When it's easy I don't mind posting to other platforms through Diaspora, which I can with Facebook and Twitter.
If someone created a way to post to Google+ from Diaspora, I would post to it from Diaspora also. (If such a way already exists, I'd love to hear of it).
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#34All 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 really like Google+ also, but without all my Facebook friends (I deactivated Facebook after they overwrote my privacy settings) it's not nearly as useful or fun.
I'm trying a new technique - rather than saying "Hey, join Google+! It's really cool!" to people; I'm saying "Ah, yes, Facebook... I used to be one of _those_ people."
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#35All 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 agree, though I think Google should do more to promote this use case by offering rich text editing and draft saving to the posting UI.
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#36Maybe the new Facebook timeline is to blame? :)
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#37Users? yeah right. More like spammers and bots from the software I've seen on the blackhat forums. Spammers have learnt their lesson and now know age is a factor in deciding if it's a spam account or not and are getting in early and big.
If there are spammers targeting G+, they must be doing a crappy job, because it hasn't even registered on my radar as a fairly active regular user.
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#38I would love to join Google+ but they still haven't fixed the pseudonym issues. Twitter it is, I guess.
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#39What I don't like about Google+ is that they already have a spam problem.
What does G+ spam look like?
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#40All 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 really like Google+ also, but without all my Facebook friends (I deactivated Facebook after they overwrote my privacy settings) it's not nearly as useful or fun. I'm trying a new technique - rather than saying "Hey, join Google+! It's really cool!" to people; I'm saying "Ah, yes, Facebook... I used to be one of _those_ people."
I'm sure this is an individual experience, but I consider the fact that many of my Facebook "friends" aren't on Google+ to be a feature, not a bug. ;)