My time has increased as people having me in their circles has increased and I have found so many more people with whom to interact. I am working to find a balance of interaction on G+ to sate my appetite for involvement, to feel like I am not ignoring anyone interacting with me, and to still do my real life justice. Interesting graph… curious to the accuracy and nuances.
[EDIT] I think the linked article contains a lot of anti-G+ bias. My main reason to share was as a starting off point for discussion. I don't want anyone to think I am supporting the conclusion of their "reporting".
Thanks +Arvid Bux for the post. He also credits +Theo Tol and +Roos van Vugt.
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Time Flies
So people are spending less and less time on Google+ according to ComScore. What is your usage? Spending more on G+ or Facebook or Twitter? For me, Twitter usage is going down. Facebook for some strange reason is going up but I am using Google+ the most.And you?
More : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204653604577249341403742390.html
Credits also to +Theo Tol & +Roos van Vugt
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How much of that time is actual interaction? I leave my G+ open while on other sites or working on other things. Facebook and twitter usage dropped to nothing for me.
Tag +Keith Cramer +Jim Gomes
It saddens me that someone got paid to write this.
+Mari Miniatt I think the graph and article are interested, but reading it through more closely, it seems a little "political" with a hint of bias toward wanting to be in the vanguard of people reporting the demise or downfall of G+.
Especially the part where they are using numbers for interaction from Zynga and the online games. I find the users on G+ much more interested in posts/comments interaction than game playing. FB has that wrapped up in so many ways.
oh no????G+?……
As long as we don't know how they've measured this, we can't really read anything from these numbers.
And I would actually think that Zynga being unhappy is a positive point for G+ 🙂
+Scott Cramer With G+ games on a separate feed, it makes the comparison invalid. People could be spending the same amount of time on G+ playing games, but they are not on their main stream.
+Holland Rhodes Agreed. I find the FB / G+ user experience to be unique unto themselves. I'm not sure comparing them apples to apples works. Perhaps they are both "fruit" in that they are social networking sites, but a watermelon and a grape are both fruit too, and I find those to be vastly different!
I wonder how they're doing the math here. About two or three times a month I'll read an article on wsj.com. It takes me one or two minutes each time. That means I spend two to six minutes per month "using" wsj.com. Of course no one doing statistics on user engagement would actually count my usage as being a user. I'd be in the 5% of data that is on the fringe and gets thrown out.
The third sentence told me everything I needed to know about this article.
Dear Scott, as in real life, true friends are very few; The old adage is still valid: "Who finds a friend finds a treasure." If I do a realistic budget as a user of social networks, the end result is not very exciting! As for Google, I feel very lucky to have you brothers Cramer, with whom I love talking, and some Italian friends. Many people that I included in the circles have a snobbish attitude: do not even greet you and are limited only to bomb the stream of posts very often in bad taste or more like marketing efforts! I think I will soon spring cleaning of my circles! Better a few friends but true friends! I greet you, your girlfriend and the rest of the Cramer family! (I hope that the translation is understandable!)
I load Facebook when my phone tells me I have a message there, or when I need to create an event (*glare* despite the fact that we all use Google Calendar for planning….wouldn't it be AWESOME if, you know, G+ and GCal were synced? *waits impatiently for March*)
I use Trillian for chat, including Facebook, so I don't need to be on there to talk to people, which helps tremendously.
I have G+ open almost all day. Even when I try to close it, every time I use Google (which is all the dang time), it sucks me back in with the notifications. Oh darn 😉
Both stay open. The top window is G+. I wonder if iOS has anything with logging minutes
+Holland Rhodes you mean about where he got the data comScore? I looked them up. Don't look really reliable to me… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComScore#Criticism
+Holland Rhodes Right with 'ya.
+Salvio Giglio I'm reading your statement as social networks overall are not exciting outside of some close friends that you have found; and that you are counting G+ in the positive in that aspect for some of us that you have found. I am honored to be in that list for you, my friend. You (and others here for sure!) are what tips the G+ scale heavily for me. I never found this level of engagement on FB.
Like +Lauren Kelly said, every time I try to close G+ it sucks me back in with the notification ticker. FB I could go days or all week without logging in and that)was when I was actually trying to be interactive there.
+Humberto Gauna I wondered the same thing.
To all… the comments on the original post that I shared are also quite interesting if you have not already gone and read them. 🙂
+Mari Miniatt I like how MySpace ranks over double G+. Are they counting time spent streaming music from people's profiles?!
Obviously you can not compare FB to Google: Google is always open to new contacts, it is global! The thing that really makes me angry and I have more answers from you Americans, despite the language problem, that with some Italian … are the usual provincial! To me you and Keith are a great gift from Google, as Mariapia Giulivo, Massimo della Rovere (great webmaster) and a few other people who are really good!
Great comment/quote from original thread from +Sandee Whalen:
Find Twitter to be too restrictive & self-serving and FB to be too mundane (no offense friends & family). For me, G+ fits the bill and is about discovery, engagement, community building, sharing and connecting.
That sums it up quite nicely.
I agree!
Google+ is going up, don't use Twitter much any more, Facebook is still about the same…for now.
Regarding the article: too boring; didn't read. People have been declaring the demise of +Google+ two weeks after the private invitation-only Beta started last July. They were wrong then, and they are "wronger" now. Google+ is an iceberg with the bulk of the usage and activity hidden from public view. And the addition of SPYW (Search Plus Your World) increases that effect. I don't think many people grok SPYW. It's like the Monolith and we are the monkeys jumping around it.
And I have been on a #ditchfacebook campaign since I discovered Circles. My Twitter usage has withered. I went back a couple of weeks ago, and got so bored I uninstalled my Twitter app.
+Scott Cramer and +Jim Gomes good morning and I'll tell you that I haven't uninstalled but I spend all of my time on G+ other than "following back" and being polite on Twitter and seeing who I need to say happy birthday to on FB. I just read a post saying the average use for G+ was 3 min a month (hard to believe) compared to 7-9 hrs on FB…but I've also read others saying G+ was going to rule which is what I personally think…and you??
Good morning +Kim Crawford . I have never written Happy Birthday on someone's FB wall. It's something I refuse to do. It's one step above that stupid poke.
I saw an interesting post on this from +Mark Traphagen (via +Cara Schulz ) about a +The Wall Street Journal article. (I can't link direct to the post since I'm on mobile, so I gave you all the reference clues I could to help you track it down.)
Well +Jim Gomes I have never poked nor played farmville or any of the stupid games but I know when people wish ME happy birthday it makes me feel good so I return the good feelings. It's OK to agree to not agree on this.:-)
For fun, try searching on G+ for "ghost town".
Gotta get back to work!!Bye 4 now!
+Kim Crawford no worries. I do wish people Happy Birthday, I just do it in a more private personal manner. It's important to remember people on their birthday. I just don't like the FB culture of massive wall posts.
+Jim Gomes – My rant about this is at https://plus.google.com/u/0/107022061436866576067/posts/6BtRaMMt37c
Some people are asking where they got the figures. The answer is Comscore, and as soon as you see that name all credibility should fly out the window. Comscore gets its data through toolbars installed on users' browsers. They get these toolbars on browsers by incentivizing people with low level "deals" and such. You can imagine the sophistication of people who install spying toolbars in exchange for one time "deals."
+Jim Gomes Excellent on all counts, as always!
+Kim Crawford Good morning! I agree that a "Happy Birthday" makes me smile too; but only if it's genuine, not just because Facebook notified people who otherwise wouldn't know or care.
+Jim Gomes again… Too funny you mention "ghost town". Take a gander at this old post of mine where I was turning the tables on Facebook. 😉
+Kim Crawford again… I have not forgotten getting back to you on our other topic!!! 🙂
Hi +Mark Traphagen! Thanks for joining in and posting that link.
+Mark Traphagen Yes, thank you, and welcome!
G+>@T>FB>LN
ACK,just did a whole post and google said I wasn't allowed so here is an abbreviated version… +Scott Cramer good re our topic and re FB I actually use it as a friends only;not just people who post and have birthdays but friends calendar so I remember….maybe it's a girl thing,LOL!
+Kim Crawford I'm still waiting/hoping for +Google+ and Google Calender integration. I love Google Calendar, and use it to track All The Things that go on in my life.
Anyone who enjoys G+ but is growing tired of hearing the media tell you G+ is failing, you will like this post. Trust me.
https://plus.google.com/u/1/114613911236813249666/posts/Y87ke1DNv9K