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Come on if you're going to claim Google Plus is dead you better provide evidence, like statistics. I use Google+ everyday and am very happy with it, I only see

Come on if you're going to claim Google Plus is dead you better provide evidence, like statistics. I use Google+ everyday and am very happy with it, I only see its use increasing day by day. When I need to talk to family or friends I go on Facebook, but when I want to learn about new things I go on Google Google+.

Chronic26 12y ago
G+ is in fact dead. So few people use it. Just look around. Now we have the Google fan boys defending G+ on here.
slurry 12y ago
He does provide some evidence, although I'm not sure how much like statistics it is. Here: "Last week, the company parted ways with Vic Gundotra, a talented executive who led Google+ through a thick fog of expectations. The company is also reported to be reassigning team members and sub-products (possibly Hangouts) to other business units. " He acknowledges that for some things like tech discussion G+ is doing fine. The argument is that, organizationally, Google itself is pivoting away from G+.
zaidf 12y ago
I drink a cola called Blah Cola. It doesn't mean that Blah Cola isn't dead. In a literal sense of the word it isn't; but for practical purposes, Blah Cola is dead compared to Coca Cola and Google+ is dead compared to Facebook.
- Aqueous 12y ago
  Except it's more like if several hundred million other people and I drink "Blah Cola." Even if Google Plus only has 10% of the active users of Facebook - fuck, even 5%, even 1% - that's still millions of people who are using it actively. So yeah - "dead." Note: There's a reason supermarket chains produce their own, knock-off brands of soda that are cheaper and taste mostly the same as the brand-name. And it's not because nobody buys them.
  - zaidf 12y ago
    That several hundred million people claim is a hoax. It's part of the reason for Vic's departure: instead of actually increasing engagement of Google+, he forced top performing google properties like YouTube to integrate Plus, just so he can claim a portion of YouTube traffic as google+ traffic. It's the kind of shit only an exec from Microsoft would pull. To date Google+ hasn't actually released a clear engagement metric such as how many people have made a post in the past 30 days. Note: There's a reason supermarket chains produce their own, knock-off brands of soda that are cheaper and taste mostly the same as the brand-name. And it's not because nobody buys them. You're proving me correct by arguing that Plus is equivelent to Supermarket cola. That's an epic failure for google. They launched Plus to become a competitor to Facebook the same way Pepsi competes with Coke. You're conceding that Plus is no Pepsi - and that makes it as good as dead.
    - hahainternet 12y ago
      > To date Google+ hasn't actually released a clear engagement metric such as how many people have made a post in the past 30 days. So when they do, you'll claim that Youtube comments don't count right?
      - barrkel 12y ago
        Of course they don't count. People commenting on youtube videos are there because of YT's content, not because of +.
jackboggler 12y ago
On the contrary, maybe you should provide evidence that it's alive because for all practical purposes it's dead. Nobody I know uses it, those youtube comments look like fabricated conversations, the level of spying by google is just downright creepy. G+ will never fly, it's a dead product like Glass.

Chronic26 12y ago

G+ is in fact dead. So few people use it. Just look around. Now we have the Google fan boys defending G+ on here.

slurry 12y ago

He does provide some evidence, although I'm not sure how much like statistics it is. Here: "Last week, the company parted ways with Vic Gundotra, a talented executive who led Google+ through a thick fog of expectations. The company is also reported to be reassigning team members and sub-products (possibly Hangouts) to other business units. " He acknowledges that for some things like tech discussion G+ is doing fine. The argument is that, organizationally, Google itself is pivoting away from G+.

zaidf 12y ago

I drink a cola called Blah Cola. It doesn't mean that Blah Cola isn't dead. In a literal sense of the word it isn't; but for practical purposes, Blah Cola is dead compared to Coca Cola and Google+ is dead compared to Facebook.

Aqueous 12y ago
Except it's more like if several hundred million other people and I drink "Blah Cola." Even if Google Plus only has 10% of the active users of Facebook - fuck, even 5%, even 1% - that's still millions of people who are using it actively. So yeah - "dead." Note: There's a reason supermarket chains produce their own, knock-off brands of soda that are cheaper and taste mostly the same as the brand-name. And it's not because nobody buys them.
- zaidf 12y ago
  That several hundred million people claim is a hoax. It's part of the reason for Vic's departure: instead of actually increasing engagement of Google+, he forced top performing google properties like YouTube to integrate Plus, just so he can claim a portion of YouTube traffic as google+ traffic. It's the kind of shit only an exec from Microsoft would pull. To date Google+ hasn't actually released a clear engagement metric such as how many people have made a post in the past 30 days. Note: There's a reason supermarket chains produce their own, knock-off brands of soda that are cheaper and taste mostly the same as the brand-name. And it's not because nobody buys them. You're proving me correct by arguing that Plus is equivelent to Supermarket cola. That's an epic failure for google. They launched Plus to become a competitor to Facebook the same way Pepsi competes with Coke. You're conceding that Plus is no Pepsi - and that makes it as good as dead.
  - hahainternet 12y ago
    > To date Google+ hasn't actually released a clear engagement metric such as how many people have made a post in the past 30 days. So when they do, you'll claim that Youtube comments don't count right?
    - barrkel 12y ago
      Of course they don't count. People commenting on youtube videos are there because of YT's content, not because of +.

jackboggler 12y ago

On the contrary, maybe you should provide evidence that it's alive because for all practical purposes it's dead. Nobody I know uses it, those youtube comments look like fabricated conversations, the level of spying by google is just downright creepy. G+ will never fly, it's a dead product like Glass.