Raise Your Hand If You’re Still Using Google+

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/15/raise-your-hand-if-youre-still-using-google/

by emwa • 15 years ago

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e40• 15 years ago

I still use it, because I like it better than FB. However, most of the people that signed up when I invited them don't appear to use it much. I feel like I'm yelling into the wind.

chime• 15 years ago

I do. And love it. I scripted my blog to import all my public posts on G+. My friends read my G+ posts, my family reads my blog. There was some service posted here on HN that I signed up for which auto-posts all my G+ public posts to my Twitter. So I only have to post in one place. Works out quite well. Also, I created a sorta popular G+ extension (Plus Minus) and people from all over the world have started to add me. At least to me, G+ doesn't seem to be dying and new features keep coming out on a daily basis.

yanw• 15 years ago

I do. And I haven't published even one post that wasn't targeted to a specific circle (non public).

I think maybe the author should wait for G+ to be visible to all users and integrated over all Google's products, have a search feature and not to mentioned easier to sign up to before he starts echoing unreliable and meaningless stats.

Triumvark2• 15 years ago

> I do, and haven't published even one post that wasn't targeted to a specific circle.

Exactly. The article is measuring the number of G+ users who don't understand circles. Declining public posts isn't necessarily a bad thing.

hvs2• 15 years ago

I wouldn't call people who don't publish to specific circles "users who don't understand circles." I publish almost everything publicly because I honestly don't care who reads most of it. I only publish to specific circles when I actually care, which is rare.

dfxm12• 15 years ago

I use Google+, but not as much as Facebook or Twitter, and the reason is the mobile app isn't that good.

I do my social networking on the go, and I use Tweetdeck to keep everything in one place. Until Tweetdeck gets Google+ integration, I can't be bothered to open up another app...

What I do use Google+ for is pictures. The background upload is great and I like that Google+ doesn't seem to compress pictures.

That said, Google+ needs to differentiate itself by integrating with more Google apps, most notably Google Docs...

hvs2• 15 years ago

G+ is becoming sort of the tech section of my social universe. Only my technology friends are really using it, but there are usually a couple of posts a week.

Which is actually fine for me, because my tech friends don't really post tech stuff to FB anyway, it's just family/photo stuff.

Plus, I can follow Linus on G+: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts

darklajid• 15 years ago

Liked it, put up a 'Moved to G+' image on FB and stopped reading there.

Then Google decided that they are in charge of the name policy and my account was blocked ever since. G+ as a concept was wounded.

Then Google thought it's a good idea to give me a popup saying 'You know what? Your account is blocked, you cannot read the content here anymore. Appeal and bend over or - hey - you can take your data with you when you go out of the door. We won't stop you'. Every link to a G+ post was inaccessible. It died in my world.

They fixed that now (so now I get a popup saying 'You're still not part of this community. Really, you can leave us if you want' - but I can close it and read the posts), but I don't care anymore. I didn't bother to delete my profile completely yet, but I haven't used it forever now and I'm missing nothing at all.

For my tiny micro cosmos (not representative, my own view) they failed hard to keep the enthusiasts. Opening my profile brings the cliche 'wait for the tumbling weed' feeling up in me.

simmons• 15 years ago

It may be a serious problem for Google+ that Google Apps users cannot sign up. They are alienating their most loyal customers.

I still check G+ every day, and there's a core of active users in my circles. But it would be more useful if I could connect with my colleagues who are Apps users.

FredBrach• 15 years ago

Most google products are too beta to be really used. I really think and insist here that the "ship as soon as possible" is not a magic recipe, it's a good card which have to be played at the right moment for the right thing. Some product need a pretty good polishing (like video games) at the first public release. A facebook competitor has to be really polished as soon as possible and nothing else I would say. Google could have its social network, it's just organic. But they still can mess it up. Don't know if it's the case but... they can.

beej71• 15 years ago

Still using G+, no longer using Facebook.

Rotor• 15 years ago

I was using Google+ within about a week of the open beta. I was excited to use it in a way similar to Twitter, the circles feature is definitely great there.

Then they shut down my account due to the full name policy. I never went back or attempted to reactivate my account. I am not going to use Google+ if the name policy is in effect. Twitter does not require a full name.

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