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What a deceptive and misleading headline here at HN. The source says: "over 400,000,000 people have upgraded to Google+". Is there a difference between "activ

• mtgx 14y ago
  Of course. 100 mil people who use Google+ at least once a month, and the other 300 have registered with Google+ but haven't used it in the past month. The ratio seems to be 4:1 compared to Facebook's 2:1 of non-active to active monthly users (they use a very similar method to determine the active people), so I wonder why Google isn't taking more steps to reduce this ratio. Maybe they care as much about "registered users" as they do about the active ones. Maybe they just want to have everyone with their real names on file, which might explain why they might not care about the ratio of non-active to active as much.
• silverbax88 14y ago
  Yes - there's a huge difference. Want to create a gmail account? Guess what- you've got Google+! YouTube account? AdWords? AdSense? Bingo - Google+. I use Google+ for hangouts to run our remote meetings. It works pretty well. But not much use for it beyond that. Of course, that's not saying it's any better than Facebook - I only use FB to promote stuff related to my business.