Google's stock has seen a big increase and much of it is attributed to Google+.

I've added quite a few of you, so don't be too alarmed when you sign in. :lol:

So I haven't been on my Google+ since I started it. Safe to say this thing tanked.

Still too early. Facebook is still hugely popular and Twitter is better than Facebook, imo. I opened my twitter in 2009 0r 2010 but have just now in the last few months started using it a lot. I am on twitter daily now even though I opened it and didn't use it for a year.

So I haven't been on my Google+ since I started it. Safe to say this thing tanked.

 

I agree..It was a decent concept but it will not catch on like Facebook and Twitter.

Still too early. Facebook is still hugely popular and Twitter is better than Facebook, imo. I opened my twitter in 2009 0r 2010 but have just now in the last few months started using it a lot. I am on twitter daily now even though I opened it and didn't use it for a year.

Agree on both.

So I haven't been on my Google+ since I started it. Safe to say this thing tanked.

 

8 months later and I think this is still true. Anyone ever use Google+?

8 months later and I think this is still true. Anyone ever use Google+?

 

Nope. They killed my favorite thing on the internet, Google Reader, in order to get people to move to Google+, so I'll never use it. That and... I still have no idea what it does. I've read at least a dozen articles on it and I still don't know what it's good for.

While the odds were pretty long that it would succeed, it’s interesting that it didn't catch on. There was plenty of early excitement about it and on paper I believe most people would prefer it to facebook - namely due to the ease of organization, simplicity, and its reach beyond just “friends” but into news, media, etc. Not to mention the incessant complaints with facebook about privacy, invasiveness, and the constant layout and useability reconfigurations, among others. G+ has angled itself as the mature social networking site to facebook's increasingly adolescent nature (if I receive another request for some silly game or app...), but so far people haven't been compelled to give it up.

 

People are entrenched in facebook and G+ hasn’t really provided any sort of earthshaking reason or event to get people to plug into it, become entrenched, then leave facebook. Facebook was able to achieve that when it was exclusively a college student utility slowly rolled to different university populations over time. I think the exclusivity and novelty drove an incredible number of college students into signing up, where they eventually found it fun and necessary. By the time facebook was made universal there was already a massive population on there for new users to interact with, which again drove more and more people to sign on. There’s just been no similar impetus for droves to login to G+ and, while I don’t think it is doomed, it will likely stagnate until that impetus arises.