Comments on: Google+ has been Abandoned

By: Swayam Das

Swayam Das — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:50:58 +0000

Hi Jim, I started growing my G+ network and yeah! You were right It isn’t a ghost town after all. With the introductions of the Communities feature its really cool

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:16:09 +0000

I think the problem with Google+ is a lot of people signed up because they have gmail accounts, and they haven’t gone back to it. If Google could put Gmail, and Google+ on the same page, I’ll bet they would have many more daily users.

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:02:10 +0000

Who said otherwise was either really delusional or was getting paid to say so. It is true that the number of accounts is high, but since when does that say something about the real use of the medium? Everybody jumped on G+ in the beginning because it was something new or because they thought they should at least check it out, but it never really took off – my explanation would be that it did not offer anything radically different from Facebook or specialized in some other nice, which could be said for other networks who experienced a huge success lately (Pinterest, to mention just one). So the people just kept on using Facebook because, well, where was the advantage on leaving it? Google probably thought they would succeed in stealing the show in the way Facebook buried MySpace, but the reality is they came up with a FB knock-off, which offered users nothing more – outside marketing/IT circles there was NO TALK AT ALL about G+, and it´s the common users who ultimately make a new platform successful.

By: Michael Assad

Michael Assad — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:03:49 +0000

You nailed it.

By: HitStudios

HitStudios — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:36:36 +0000

I think Google+ had the features going for them, but needs to stop trying to compete with Facebook and go after something bigger.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:29:59 +0000

I’m going to keep this short…I’m been marketing and selling stuff online since 2004 and this is not the first time Google has tried to ram something down everybody’s throat.

Google is doing what other good marketers do…copy what is working. Unfortunately due to their arrogance believing they know better than the marketplace their efforts to match FB and the others have not been very successful.

I look for G+ to die a slow painful death until G’s next attempt at social marketing.
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By: Glenn Wallace

Glenn Wallace — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:16:41 +0000

I kind of thought the same thing about Google + but I think I misunderstood Google’s true purpose. Check out this article on an interesting perspective of the whole Google= vs. Facebook. http://www.eddale.co/apple/a-pig-just-flew-buy-and-hes-belting-out-hollywood-nights

By: Jim Banks

Jim Banks — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:38:22 +0000

No disrespect Swayam, but you have 32 people in your circles and are in 41 circles, so of course it’s going to be a little boring.

I’d be happy to make suggestions of people you might want to consider circling and if you make the effort yourself to add more content then it will become a lot less boring.

On my sites I am getting more traffic from Google+ than anywhere else, but that is because that is where most of my activity is going, I could just as easy make it LinkedIn, or Stumbled Upon if I put the effort in there.
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By: Jim Banks

Jim Banks — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:32:23 +0000

I can’t help thinking that part of the issue with Google+ haters is they are doing it wrong and not thinking about the bigger picture.

I’m not even going to try to extrapolate why you should use Google+ and use it a LOT but it’s the backbone of all the services people use on a daily basis.

All social networks are only every about the people in your immediate circles of influence and the topics that interest you. I don’t care that facebook has a billion people, I don’t know them all, nor do I want to, all I am interested in is the smallish number of personal and professional people I know and how we can interact.

I’ve never understood why people try to compare. They are not the same thing, so don’t compare them.

If I was a gambler, I’d be all in on Google+ and I’ve never been a fan boy of Google, so it’s not easy for me to say how right they have got it.
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By: Jonathon

Jonathon — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:41:24 +0000

Google+ was never as easy to figure out as Facebook or Twitter, in my opinion. Unless you take the time to watch a tutorial, it’s not that user friendly.

I believe that their 170M user stat is over-inflated as well, since many of the “users” are people that ended up with a Google+ account, because they have a Gmail account. When they started offering Google+ pages, there was a notification in Gmail that many people likely clicked on long enough to have the page setup, only to be abandoned. Most of my friends have an account and have never posted on it, or filled out the details.

The other problem with another social network is that for the less-than-connected crowd, it seems like just keeping up with Facebook is enough. My parents for example are in their early 60′s. They use Facebook and visit once a day for 10 minutes or less. They don’t interact much, and there are many people just like them. To toss another social network at them that they feel they need to visit and maintain just isn’t realistic.
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