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

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Post by mstz »

bodegajed wrote: post #66
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…

> All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me Because Google became evil. Remember when Microsoft pre-installed IE in windows? It's the same thing when Google placed G+ in gmail.

I think that comparison is a bit off.

Internet Explorer cannot be removed without damaging Windows or affecting other programs which depend on Internet Explorer's files. You also said yourself it is "pre-installed".

You are not required to be a Google+ user in order to use Gmail, and you obviously won't see integrations in Gmail unless you have a Google+ account.

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

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Post by tszming »

Would be more interesting if Google can provide more meaningful data like facebook: https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

>> More than 800 million active users

>> More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day

>> On average, more than 250 million photos are uploaded per day

etc.

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

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Post by zem »

RexRollman wrote: post #38

I would love to join Google+ but they still haven't fixed the pseudonym issues. Twitter it is, I guess.

yeah, i joined and it's technically a really excellent platform, but i find it hard to have any real attachment to it without full pseudonym support.

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

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Post by resnamen »

bodegajed wrote: post #66
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…

> All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me Because Google became evil. Remember when Microsoft pre-installed IE in windows? It's the same thing when Google placed G+ in gmail.

Easy - don't create a Google profile.

Did you create a Google profile by accident? https://plus.google.com/settings/ , click "Delete profile and remove associated Google+ features". Voila, done. Your Gmail is pristine and the chip on your shoulder has surely vanished.

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

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Post by spiredigital »

Google+'s killer feature (at least from what I've seen) is Circles. Not being able to easily control who sees what on Facebook is the reason I don't post more personal content to it. Being able to easily control what I share and with who - like I do in the real world - would make me 10x more likely to become an active participant on a social network. It might be time to actually sign up for an account....

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

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Post by mvgoogler »

fl3tch wrote: post #32
_ea1k wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I'm on the G+ photos team. Do you have an example of a slow loading image? If you can send me a link I could take a look.

Latency is definitely something we care about.

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Post by Andrex »

akkartik wrote: post #42
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.

Yes, active users would be better. It's still useful though to have users registered. At some point it'll hit critical mass and that bar at the top of the page will start lighting up with notifications. I had a linkedin account for years before I paid any attention to it. Eventually the emails started rolling in to engage me.

LinkedIn is probably a good comparison. I too heard about it years and years ago, but only got around to signing up for it this year. I figure Google+ will be similar for most people, as long as Google keeps the updates coming like they have been.

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

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Post by fl3tch »

mvgoogler wrote: post #78
fl3tch wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I'm on the G+ photos team. Do you have an example of a slow loading image? If you can send me a link I could take a look. Latency is definitely something we care about.

Edit: Well wouldn't you know, this just happened:

http://i.imgur.com/ESojw.png

Typical of what I see. This is a fresh Firefox profile, no cache, no extensions. It's also not a network problem, since I don't see this on other sites, even other Google properties like search or Gmail. It's unique to G+

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