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Honestly those numbers are most likely almost entirely automated bots. G+ is popular with content mills to get their page ranking up. Think about it for a momen

• godshatter 11y ago
  I use it. It's a nice place to follow news organizations and argue with complete strangers in the comment sections of the articles they post. Discussions seem to be less quarrelsome, YMMV. The communities are nice for following hobbyist interests. I don't use it at all for following friends or family.
• mentaat 11y ago
  g+ doesn't have a write api so everything you see there is posted by a human technically. that said i don't post on g+ but whenever i log in my stream is full of "fresh" content with reasonable engagement. so somebody is using g+ although i don't know a single person that does... could it be that it is more popular outside of US?
• boyce 11y ago
  It's very popular in particular niches. No serious Ingress player isn't active on G+, for instance.
• NoGravitas 10y ago
  It appears to me that G+ has found a different niche than Facebook. Facebook is for seeing posts from people you know (mostly people you know but don't see often or at all, like college friends or your aunt). G+ is for seeing posts from people you share interests with. Yes, FB has groups and pages for that kind of thing, but it just seems to have clicked better on G+.