This feels high to me, but it's based on some actual research. I'd guess the actual number is closer to one million, but no matter what number you are believing in it is definitely true that Google+ is growing fast.
This is totally incredible news. I am so happy, I am so much into Google +; with Facebook, I felt something bounded me. And I am living in a territory. But here in Google + I am so free, free as a bird who could fly any where - sky is the limit.
Google + rocks, no doubt about it. I like it's look and feel, it's so cool. And so user friendly. I mean at first time I was using FB I was little hesitant but with Google+ nothing of that sort happened, it's so cool. I started to create my circles and then hangout. And have fun. Feel like I am connected to world.
Google+ Good job. I like it. I like it more than Facebook, and you?
Hope you too like it, meet me at Google+ - OCassandrae@gmail.com
Here are some of the comments I got in Google+ thought to share it here with you:
William Wetherill - G+ really has a chance here. I love the look and feel of it and Google has done a pretty good job on usability. I agree with you that it just feels better than FB.
Jul 12, 2011
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Olivia Cassandrae - Agreed Gary. It’s wonderful.
Totally! It's startling to note that competition can be so advanced, making people to sit on their edges of the seat. And compelling them to create new ideas some break through. If you are late even in a second your opposition might out grow you. In this cutting edge competition, I think the way the giants are reproducing the concepts is totally amazing.
Totally! It's startling to note that competition can be so advanced, making people to sit on their edges of the seat. And compelling them to create new ideas some break through. If you are late even in a second your opposition might out grow you. In this cutting edge competition, I think the way the giants are reproducing the concepts is totally amazing.
Jul 12, 2011 - Edit
Karl Stevens - I agree. FB's social mechanism (requiring acknowledgement of "friends") is an artificial barrier to interaction. Goo+'s mechanism is much more conducive to socialization.
Iit seems to me that the "essence" of Goo+ is much more akin to Twitter than FB. Considering how bad the Twitter UI is and yet how popular it is, I'd say that this method is a much better one.
Iit seems to me that the "essence" of Goo+ is much more akin to Twitter than FB. Considering how bad the Twitter UI is and yet how popular it is, I'd say that this method is a much better one.
Jul 12, 2011
Brett Walker - I like how not everything I say is broadcast to the world by default. I can even post a link to a friend's feed and not have everyone see it.
Jul 12, 2011
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Tony Sidaway - I gave up on Facebook some time ago for a variety of reasons , not the least of which was the terribly low quality of the user experience. Seemingly arbitrary design changes and unannounced changes in the security model, the introduction of those execrable "games", and a slow but sure migration towards noise and babble eventually drove home the message that there was no "there" there, nothing to come back to.
It's hard to build a social network. Facebook failed, at least in my view, after looking like a success for a number of years. In my eyes Twitter was the big surprise because it showed that people will take on the hard work of building a network themselves if permitted to do so. Hashtags and retweets emerged spontaneously as ad hoc protocols, and numerous external services have built on a very basic shell to provide support for pictures and video. If Facebook is the Windows of social networking, Twitter is the bash shell. Neither is even close to being the last word.
Something that incorporates lessons learned from the triumphs and mistakes of both Twitter and Facebook could be very successful, though I think it's very early days and we'll see a few more iterations before a finalist will emerge.
Meanwhile I see Google+'s most important task as being the development of a unique character that attracts and nurtures producers and sharers who are the lifeblood of any human community. Twitter showed that at least part of the secret is in not standing in their way.
It's hard to build a social network. Facebook failed, at least in my view, after looking like a success for a number of years. In my eyes Twitter was the big surprise because it showed that people will take on the hard work of building a network themselves if permitted to do so. Hashtags and retweets emerged spontaneously as ad hoc protocols, and numerous external services have built on a very basic shell to provide support for pictures and video. If Facebook is the Windows of social networking, Twitter is the bash shell. Neither is even close to being the last word.
Something that incorporates lessons learned from the triumphs and mistakes of both Twitter and Facebook could be very successful, though I think it's very early days and we'll see a few more iterations before a finalist will emerge.
Meanwhile I see Google+'s most important task as being the development of a unique character that attracts and nurtures producers and sharers who are the lifeblood of any human community. Twitter showed that at least part of the secret is in not standing in their way.
Jul 12, 2011
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Olivia Cassandrae - Tony a very profound description of networking. Your words are so intense and hold so much of depth. I totally concur with you. I like Twitter, they generate news fast and spread them equally. FB is a slow networking to be in contact with your friends. Google+ is just so cool.
I liked the games in FB, Farmville is my favourite then comes Cafeworld and Cityville. Google + seems do not host any games I suppose, until now I did not see any link or button to that.
I liked the games in FB, Farmville is my favourite then comes Cafeworld and Cityville. Google + seems do not host any games I suppose, until now I did not see any link or button to that.
Jul 12, 2011 - Edit
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Adam Hirschfeld - Keep in mind this is still the trial run, lets not forget what facebook was like in its early days...I really doubt the google plus we're looking at now is going to be the same google plus we have a year from now.
Yesterday 12:00 AM
Tony Sidaway - As I understand it there will be games here soon. I hope I will still find the environment here congenial when that happens.
Yesterday 2:44 AM
Abhijith Venkata - Google+ is a blend of Twitter and Facebook's essentials. The first thing in G+ which attracted me was the Early Adopter Crowd of Geeks, it mad me feel that I'm in a family. After getting sick from reading useless updates from immature users in facebook and hiding their posts forever, blocking the inundated flow of App and Game requests I sought something better and discovered that G+ is just what I was looking for. With its clean interface and most importantly Circles (a Fantastic way of grouping members). It had me give up facebook.
The main problem I faced with facebook is the obligation of adding friends whom I consider worthless and sharing my posts with them. In G+ i can just add them to the "Junk" circle and they wouldn't even know. An share everything with much satisfaction and as we know that its going the reach the right circle.
I've been watching it right from its inception and all I have to say is : G+ is my first love :)
The main problem I faced with facebook is the obligation of adding friends whom I consider worthless and sharing my posts with them. In G+ i can just add them to the "Junk" circle and they wouldn't even know. An share everything with much satisfaction and as we know that its going the reach the right circle.
I've been watching it right from its inception and all I have to say is : G+ is my first love :)
Yesterday 1:17 PM (edited Yesterday 1:19 PM)
Olivia Cassandrae - Venkata, why do you have to add those whom you don't respect in first place? Why do you have to add a Junck circle. If you don't like the ones in your circle - hmm!
You sound little rude and dis-respectable.
Glad you liked Google +. LOL! How is your love doing?
You sound little rude and dis-respectable.
Glad you liked Google +. LOL! How is your love doing?
Yesterday 1:25 PM - Edit
Olivia Cassandrae - Tony Sidaway, I think games will also start creeping in . . . But I find games are the way to share a good time with the friends.
Yesterday 1:26 PM - Edit
Abhijith Venkata - Firstly Its Abhijith not Venkata
I'm pursuing my B.Tech in a JNTU affiliated college. My facebook contains almost only my class and college mates.
So its an obligation to add them unless I want to earn their wrath and be marked as a Hostile Person.
Ever had your stream flooded with useless, uninteresting, stupid posts?
Well..I did...almost everyday I was about to renounce social networking entirely.
About the Junk circle...The i-dont-like-them crowd started migrating to G+.
How am I supposed to answer "Why didn't you add me?"
Hence the Junk circle.
And My love.... We've bonded..big time
I'm pursuing my B.Tech in a JNTU affiliated college. My facebook contains almost only my class and college mates.
So its an obligation to add them unless I want to earn their wrath and be marked as a Hostile Person.
Ever had your stream flooded with useless, uninteresting, stupid posts?
Well..I did...almost everyday I was about to renounce social networking entirely.
About the Junk circle...The i-dont-like-them crowd started migrating to G+.
How am I supposed to answer "Why didn't you add me?"
Hence the Junk circle.
And My love.... We've bonded..big time
Yesterday 1:52 PM (edited Yesterday 1:59 PM)
Tony Sidaway - +Olivia Cassandrae I don't mind that fact that people use Facebook to play games--good luck to them. What I found though was that my feed would fill up with announcements about some friends or other playing a new game. So Facebook was making it hard for me to use it for the purpose I wanted, and as far as I can tell the game players gained nothing from inadvertently annoying me.
I began to perceive that Facebook had an interest in making game playing obtrusive, because games are attractive to many people and bring them back to stay on the site for long times. They didn't care much that they were forcing people like me, on our increasingly irregular forays into Facebook, to make large efforts to find the right part of Facebook's quite confusing user interface to block out the noise.
I began to perceive that Facebook had an interest in making game playing obtrusive, because games are attractive to many people and bring them back to stay on the site for long times. They didn't care much that they were forcing people like me, on our increasingly irregular forays into Facebook, to make large efforts to find the right part of Facebook's quite confusing user interface to block out the noise.
Yesterday 3:51 PM
Tony Sidaway - +Abhijith Venkata if friends really care whether or not you follow them on some website, the only sensible response is to suggest that they give their attention to something that matters. Say "I'm talking to you now. We don't need to use Facebook, Google+ or Twitter to communicate."
Yesterday 3:57 PM (edited Yesterday 4:18 PM)
Olivia Cassandrae - Tony Sidaway I am so much compelled to concur with you.
Well, agreed.
It annoys a lot and lot, at times, I keep on deleting some of the junk posts. But the only thing I found interesting in the social games is that people become so personal and they tend to become as a family.
Friends become the best, colleagues become friends, parents become so close and understanding.
But this is one side of the story, the second part is totally true that you mentioned above. Networking is not to create confusion and noise but to share one's ideas.
Until now I did not see this kind of noise here in Google + ; hope it stays so.
Well, agreed.
It annoys a lot and lot, at times, I keep on deleting some of the junk posts. But the only thing I found interesting in the social games is that people become so personal and they tend to become as a family.
Friends become the best, colleagues become friends, parents become so close and understanding.
But this is one side of the story, the second part is totally true that you mentioned above. Networking is not to create confusion and noise but to share one's ideas.
Until now I did not see this kind of noise here in Google + ; hope it stays so.
Yesterday 3:57 PM - Edit
+21 by Jayashree Pandu, Paul Swanson, Carin Facchina Clark, Chris Grimes, Al Stefanelli and 16 others
ReplyDeleteWilliam Wetherill - G+ really has a chance here. I love the look and feel of it and Google has done a pretty good job on usability. I agree with you that it just feels better than FB.
Jul 12, 2011 +1