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Yea but facebook/myspace started from nothing. Google had a LITTLE advantage over them.
That didn't stop Buzz from being a piece of crap that nobody used.
Google has a lot going for it, but the product they delivery ultimately matters most and Google+ seems to be headed in the right direction. I have no idea whether it will become the next Twitter, supplant Facebook, or settle in as a 3rd competitor, but it's hard to deny that Google has been off to a great start with the service.
Me and all my friends have google+ accounts now, we all had it in the first week itself I guess. Its funny how no one actually posts anything there... I probably have ~ 50 friends NO ONE posts anything. If fact it almost seems like people have cut down on Facebook posts too, I see fewer updates. G+ might have just confused people or might have just made us realize how stupid these whole "social network" thing is...
Buzz proves my point, would you have ever heard of it if it were not from google.
There are plenty of other Myspace/facebook/etc... type sites that most will never know of. Buzz was known as it was from google.
Me and all my friends have google+ accounts now, we all had it in the first week itself I guess. Its funny how no one actually posts anything there... I probably have ~ 50 friends NO ONE posts anything. If fact it almost seems like people have cut down on Facebook posts too, I see fewer updates. G+ might have just confused people or might have just made us realize how stupid these whole "social network" thing is...
It's summer, less people sitting inside on computers. Although I do think in the longer term we will see social networking lose steam. Over the last 2 years it got really huge with facebook, but now that people have done it for a while, many will stop logging in.G+ might have just confused people or might have just made us realize how stupid these whole "social network" thing is...
Google recognizes that social is becoming more important and that, frankly, they suck at it and it's becoming a huge blindspot in their search profile. They tried to solve that by buying Twitter, who rebuffed them, so instead they designed G+ from the ground up, tied bonuses to its success, and built themselves a Twitter competitor.
Considering they've got themselves 20 million users and some pretty high marks for the service, I'd say they're doing something right.
I ask myself that same question. Google keeps rolling out services that I have no urge to try. All my needs are satisfied. Seems like they're pissing in the wind.
Why would I want to kiss my friends goodbye and set up on Google+? I hear it's a pretty lonely ghost town. Which is probably exactly why Google threw out the number of visitors -- to make it sound like a smashing success and thus encourage people to give them a shot.
Also there's no way I'm comfortable giving ONE company all my email, photos, comments, likes, search queries, etc. I really doubt Google execs are virtuous enough to trust.
That stat was 20 mil visitors, not users. At least that was the wording of the WSJ a couple weeks ago. Are they really claiming that many users?
I ask myself that same question. Google keeps rolling out services that I have no urge to try. All my needs are satisfied. Seems like they're pissing in the wind.
Why would I want to kiss my friends goodbye and set up on Google+? I hear it's a pretty lonely ghost town. Which is probably exactly why Google threw out the number of visitors -- to make it sound like a smashing success and thus encourage people to give them a shot.
Also there's no way I'm comfortable giving ONE company all my email, photos, comments, likes, search queries, etc. I really doubt Google execs are virtuous enough to trust.
That stat was 20 mil visitors, not users. At least that was the wording of the WSJ a couple weeks ago. Are they really claiming that many users?
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Yea but facebook/myspace started from nothing. Google had a LITTLE advantage over them.
Well considering IE sucks balls and Firefox has had it's share of issues, the market in the browser world was open for a new competitor, but I get what you're saying. I guess I'm not very impressed with Google+ at this point.
I already said this before games is what keep people on facebook. Google+ does not have any games so there is nothing to keep people there. The very thing you guys hate about facebook is what keeps facebook alive. All that spam from those games makes it seem like something is going on and has a vibrant feel to the page. Once that is removed it kills all the traffic that is being generated and makes it feel like a dead page.