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Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by akcreek »

cheald wrote: post #40
Bo102010 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. ;)

Agreed. I left Facebook a year ago after I realized I don't care about 99% of the stuff I read from my "friends". I'm much happier with Google+ thus far and very interested to see where it goes in the future. To me it has far more relevance and prospects than Facebook since it integrates with other google products like search.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by akcreek »

starnix17 wrote: post #30

Don'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.

I have a Google account I use for analytics, webmaster tools, etc... and Google is always prompting me to turn Google+ on as well. It wasn't automatic with my account. I had the account before Google+ existed though so maybe it is just automatic with new signups?

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Post by cytzol »

cheald wrote: post #19

All 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've never been a fan of Facebook.

This is something that's puzzled me. Is it the privacy implications, or just a general dislike for the company? The way I see it, it's a publishing platform for posts shorter than blog entries and longer than tweets. I read things that my friends write, and I write things for them to read. While there are games and pages and things, you don't have to use them.

I've had friends switch (switch, not start to use both) from Facebook to Google+, and treat it in exactly the same way as they treated Facebook. So I'm not sure if Google+ is better by its own merit, or just that Facebook has a bad reputation.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by sirn »

akcreek wrote: post #52
starnix17 wrote: post #30

Don'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.

I have a Google account I use for analytics, webmaster tools, etc... and Google is always prompting me to turn Google+ on as well. It wasn't automatic with my account. I had the account before Google+ existed though so maybe it is just automatic with new signups?

Yes. You have to manually cancel the Google Profile and Google+ account for new signups.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by edpark1 »

I wonder if Facebook is becoming the new Myspace in terms of quality of content shared. With Google you have the sense that some people are using it to replace their blogs and possibly connecting on a more professional level whereas Facebook is more about catching up with others and sharing random thoughts/opinions via short messages and likes/dislikes. The first one to have a tighter integration with Twitter and has the most adoption among Twitter users will win. Linkedin --> Google + <--- Facebook Also another thing, Google App users are already opted in by default and with more and more companies using Google Apps, that only reinforces the more professional connections.

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Post by jsnell »

resnamen wrote: post #37
brador wrote: post #2

Users? 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.

G+ spam would probably be closer to blog spam than email spam. It'd be hard to get any noticeable volume of direct spam going from a single account given the asymmetric circle relations. But spam postings would still be useful for e.g. black hat SEO, or for making a Google account look more valid for the purposes of abusing other Google services.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

#57

Post by [deleted] »

cytzol wrote: post #53
cheald wrote: post #19

All 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've never been a fan of Facebook. This is something that's puzzled me . Is it the privacy implications, or just a general dislike for the company? The way I see it, it's a publishing platform for posts shorter than blog entries and longer than tweets. I read things that my friends write, and I write things for them to read. While there are games and pages and things, you don't have to use them. I've had friends sw…

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Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

#58

Post by ajays »

timdorr wrote: post #4

Users 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.

Exactly. In the month of December, exactly 2 out of my G+ contacts made an update; and of them, only 1 updated more than once. Compare this to FB, where people add updates at least once a day or two.

I like how Google PR is working hard to spread the message, but I ain't seeing what they are selling. Don't get me wrong: I'd love to see FB have some competition. But G+ isn't cutting it as yet.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by rabble »

My question is what happened the week of September 18th? That was when Google+ went from flatlining to a huge jump in growth, then followup growth. Anybody know? My guess is something to do with android pushing folks to sign up, or maybe them pushing it through gmail or google logins. Something changed and they restarted the growth curve with a big spike.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

#60

Post by jpulgarin »

cheald wrote: post #40
Bo102010 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. ;)

Why don't you add your real friends to Facebook and/or remove your "friends".
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