Yes, yes, the point of the network is that posts don’t have to be public. But we also knew that going in, and clearly a 41 per cent drop in anything over a given month is significant.
It could be more folks are finally catching on to the benefits of non-public posting. Or that the casual, hey-what’s-this-thing-that’s-not-Facebook users are falling away and taking a disproportionately high per cent of public posts with them. Or yes, it could also just mean there’s a more linear user exodus going on.
Without numbers for private posting, we can’t be sure, but something’s clearly going on here. What have you guys noticed in your Circles? [TechCrunch]
Jake D
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:09 AMOr it could be that the four people who actually signed up realised that no-one else was coming across from facebook and got bored of trying to make it work.
Bharat
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:11 AMI’ve noticed that I rarely find new posts in my Circles for weeks. I’m the one that posts the most in my Circles!
Bob
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:59 AMGoogle-
Dan
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 8:05 AMYeah, I can’t import friends from Facebook, or invite them as I don’t know their email so I’ve given up and cancelled my account
EckyThump
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 8:05 AMI wonder how it would go if they allowed Avatars, nicknames, instead of insisting on real names?
huh?
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 9:57 AMgoogle+ does allow avatars and custom names… thats one of the things I like about it
EckyThump
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 10:55 AMWait, wasn’t there a big cufuffle about not being allowed to use nicknames or names that weren’t yours? Could’ve sworn there was an article about that when Google+ started out! #}
Dan
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 9:56 AMIt’s definitely become a bit of a wasteland very quickly. There’s just no killer reason to leave FB.
It’s also been hurt a lot by having to create a separate Google account for it that’s not your primary corporate one. Switching between accounts all the time is painful, and nobody wants to run a separate browser just for G+
Lucas
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 10:20 AMTHIS. I’d use it a lot more if I could be logged in to my private G+ account while concurrently viewing my work gmail account.
guy
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 1:00 PMWell, I normally see half a dozen posts in G+ a day, all private though.
ozoneocean
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 2:03 PMIsn’t the main point of it to BE private though and just keep things in the circles you want them in?
I don’t know many facebook users that post stuff outside of their friendslist anyway, so perhaps the assumption here is faulty.
Nads
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 2:26 PMIve logged in once in the last month.
+1 for Google-
Wok
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 2:35 PMNothing new why bother?
Glenn
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 3:37 PMFor some reason, most people I see, only post to their extended-circles, not public. Even if it is something that they are trying to get attention for.
This also means if you re-share it isn’t public…
Personally I think this is the biggest cause, certainly from what I’ve seen in in my circles.
As for why people aren’t joining, a combination of critical mass and no Google-Apps accounts. I know so many people personally that the only reason they haven’t joined is they can’t use their Google-Apps login.
Richard
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 5:05 PMLack of Google Apps account support is keeping me away for now. Not going to use my secondary account only to have to inconvinience everyone by readding them in a few months.