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Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter

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Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter

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Google+ will be a fine replacement for Facebook when everybody gets the signal that FB has entered it's Newscorp-era Myspace phase. But there's another possibility: Facebook may end up leaving such a bad taste in people's mouths that it will be replaced by nothing . Both G+ and FB may fade away as the world collectively says "fuck this". You might say I'm a dreamer.

It makes sense that G+ could outlive Facebook if only because it's so tightly integrated with a suite of products that are so widely used, where Facebook's primary external integration is through apps that aren't essential to the day-in-day out...at least not yet. I think Facebook has become to tightly woven into peoples' lives, though, that it's going to live on for quite some time. It all really depends on where th…

> It all really depends on where the kids decide to go, methinks..

And as of late, the kids have been ditching Facebook because it's not cool anymore.

Re: Google+ Is Outpacing Twitter

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A lot of skeptics here (as usual!) Well I use both Google+ and Facebook every day and to me Google+ seems VERY active with a lot of high quality content as well. I can't really say if it is more active than Twitter (which is also very active of course) but it certainly doesn't seem like "a ghost town" as some people try to claim.

facebook is getting worse day by day and google+ is really about high quality content
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