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Nobody Gives A Damn About Google+

Ouch.

A quote from that site I refuse to link to:

Visitors using personal computers spent an average of about three minutes a month on Google+ between last September and January, versus six to seven hours on Facebook each month over the same period, according to comScore, which didn’t have data on mobile usage.

3 minutes versus seven hours. I mean, 3 minutes!

The sad thing is: I bet when mobile usage is counted, the gap is actually worse.

We keep hearing over and over how Google+ is on the up-and-up — from Google. 10 million sign-ups here. A billion more there. So many fucking sign-ups.

The reality of the situation sure seems to be the opposite. The only people I know that use Google+ regularly are people who work at Google (and Robert Scoble). 

It’s just not working. For fundamental reasons. Millions more in TV ad spend won’t fix that. 

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    I really really really liked Google+ when it came out. I liked the interface, the design, the simplicity of it. It...
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    Welcome to the world of social media speculation. The only people who care whether or not a social media site is going...
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    I told you so.
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    Google+ isn’t fundamentally different or better than Facebook, and everyone you know is already on Facebook. Shitting up...
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    Pardon the explicative(s) (as always with reposts) - but he’s right.
  24. tgoss said: G+ is trying to be “better” than FB, a strategy that has rarely worked. You win by being different, not better. With the exception of circles, everything about G+ is identical to FB. GOOG should stick with Self Driving cars; at least THAT’s cool!
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    This is so true. Google basically wants everyone to switch over from services that already work. Quit Facebook for the...
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    LOL
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    Google has to acknowledge there’s a major problem here, especially when more people spend time on MySpace than on...
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    I really don’t know anyone who uses it regularly. Everyone just wanted in initially because it was new.
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    3m over 7h? That’s more than I imagined! Good for Google…
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