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so your friend circle is primarily based of facebook fanboys 🙂

http://techland.time.com/2011/07/28/is-google-momentum-slowing-report-says-visitors-spent-less-time-on-site/

What's the point when the average user spends just 5 minutes on Google+.

I don't think I need to visit the link above as it shows July 28 2011.Stats change in the matter of hours.

heh. there is no way any statistic company can measure the amount of time an average user spends on google plus.

there have been reports that x% of people have never posted on their google plus account.

against, there is no way you can measure that.

people might have blank plus pages. that does not mean that they are not using it.

they might be restricting their usage to private posts. they might just be commenting on their friend's posts.

the link you posted is just bad journalism. google alone can reveal the accurate data on plus usage. everything else is just bullshit predictions.

i see immense amount of discussion going on google plus. tons of well known personalities are using it to directly communicate with regular web users. this is something that facebook never really did. and twitter fails to do.

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just posting some of the folks who i am following:

Michael Dell: https://plus.google.com/100523784851251213675
Jeffrey Zeldman: https://plus.google.com/114664307180734299077
Wil Wheaton: https://plus.google.com/108176814619778619437
Maria Bartiromo: https://plus.google.com/107420422968461975442
Tom Anderson: https://plus.google.com/112063946124358686266
William Shatner: https://plus.google.com/112859244767729828637
Linus Torvalds: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912

This is just a small list. The kind of interaction made possible using Google Plus is simply not happening on Facebook and Twitter.

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just check a site like this: Homepage - Who to follow on Google Plus? Google+ Suggested Users.

find your favorite celebrities and whatever.

follow them and see how active google plus really is.

you cannot form an opinion based on just your friends who are stuck with facebook and its insanity. 🙂

Considering that its been only around 2 months since the launch, its too early to talk about it. I personally feel it will be a slow transition, when most people will start abandoning Facebook for Plus (In India, pretty how much how Orkut to Facebook happened). I also feel , Google should parallely work on moving the orkut users (I mean make them start using the Plus, by integrating the Plus features on Orkut & slowly phasing it out)

I feel we are straying from the topic too much though google plus' 25 million users is nowhere close to 750 million active users from facebook and wont be able to come into that league anytime soon and will likely fail like google wave did. And orkut was not very popular even at it's peak. The only places where is was a little prominent was india and brazil. I personally deleted my orkut account after using using facebook for the first time 4 years ago because i instantly saw how much simpler and better facebook was. I did not have the same feeling with google+. It doesn't bring many new things to the table compared to facebook or twittter.

You cannot expect people to abandon Facebook one fine day. Neither to expect people to start using G+ from day one. I had a Facebook account for long, but started using it seriously only when other friends came on board. The same is happening with Plus.

heh. i have seen way too many transitions in the last decade or so. i have seen people using migrating from friendster to hi5 to orkut to facebook. i have seen myspace dominating the US market and totally becoming a disaster. i have also seen myself switching from yahoo search to google search. and from hotmail to yahoo mail to gmail. i have also seen struggling in getting my friends on orkut to switch to facebook. i gave up one fine day and a couple of months later they are all bugging me on facebook. i move on to the next best thing i find whenever an existing platform starts annoying me. i started using twitter pretty early. found a good use for it and now it is everywhere. i started using facebook the day it was opened for global web users and now i cannot tolerate it. buzz was an awful platform. wave was astonishingly good. i already see some of the elements of wave in plus and i hope to see more. google has done an exceptionally good job with plus till now and they have a very good chance now to make it a viable social platform. the aim is not to beat facebook in the market. it does not even matter. facebook has become an advertiser's paradise. it has become a plague for folks like me. plus can turn into a social platform that i can use as much as my friends as i can use it with my work collegues. integration with google docs and other google platforms would make it shit load more useful. facebook? it is more of a marketing platform than a social network today.

Well, we use a lot of Google's services & it might be easy for them to just integrate them - But I guess they intend to do it slowly. And once they do , we might the shift happening more quickly.

that is one of their major advantages. second one is that they have no need to monetize it right away. they can avoid monetizing it for a long time. we already see an example of that happening. game developers get 95% of the revenue generation through their platform compared to 70% on facebook. this is something facebook cannot afford to do. they need to generate revenues. and this would become even more crucial once they launch their IPO. google has adwords as their cash cow. facebook has no other alternative.

the app is showing in the market for you? for me it didnt.

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this is just silly


guess ill use the apk

well i used the apk because it is not available in india officially.

heh. i have seen way too many transitions in the last decade or so.

i have seen people using migrating from friendster to hi5 to orkut to facebook.

i have seen myspace dominating the US market and totally becoming a disaster.

i have also seen myself switching from yahoo search to google search. and from hotmail to yahoo mail to gmail.

i have also seen struggling in getting my friends on orkut to switch to facebook. i gave up one fine day and a couple of months later they are all bugging me on facebook.

i move on to the next best thing i find whenever an existing platform starts annoying me. i started using twitter pretty early. found a good use for it and now it is everywhere.

i started using facebook the day it was opened for global web users and now i cannot tolerate it.

buzz was an awful platform. wave was astonishingly good. i already see some of the elements of wave in plus and i hope to see more. google has done an exceptionally good job with plus till now and they have a very good chance now to make it a viable social platform.

the aim is not to beat facebook in the market. it does not even matter. facebook has become an advertiser's paradise. it has become a plague for folks like me. plus can turn into a social platform that i can use as much as my friends as i can use it with my work collegues.

integration with google docs and other google platforms would make it shit load more useful. facebook? it is more of a marketing platform than a social network today.

Facebook has reached its peak .. and they r not adding much of usability..
I find plus very useful compared to fb .. but user base is still very low so I use it not tht often ..
FB is basically for a certain age group like for college going etc .. Google plus with its integrated services is much more useful and have extended the average age of its users beyond college going section ..

Although it will take some more time before google plus is used seriously ..

What i prefer is download apks as many apps are not available to download from market.
After installing the apk i forcefully bind the app with market and update 🙂

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Installed on my phone but i wonder whats the use of the app since it do not show who is online 😕

do you send SMS after checking who is online? this is group messaging not instant messaging.