Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users

[Daniel]

Social networks tend to accumulate momentum, and fairly slowly. Facebook has a ton of it right now, and Google+ has very little. It's not just in number of users, but in the habits of those users. People are used to Facebook. It'll probably take a year or so for Google+ to start taking off. And you don't really "lose" users, once signed up people always have the option of returning, especially with most of those people already having Gmail accounts.

[nYXem]

Exactly. Just that Google+ lost lots of users doesn't mean its gonna be dead or something. Its just the beginning for them. Its Google, and they know how to make top notch products. Facebook has been there for like 7 years or so, while Google+ has just recently been opened for public registration. Its one of the bigger projects taken up by Google, and they look highly professional with it and highly ambitious. They will certainly add features that will make it stand out of the crowd. And like MrSandvik just said, Google+ already has the advantage of being a Google product, which runs Gmail too, and Gmail is as of now the fastest growing email service(not sure whether the most used), and users with a Gmail account automatically get a Google+ account. So they will peek into it, like it or hate it, whatever, but the user base will certainly increase. And who knows, may be it it will catch up the required/expected pace very soon. As far as Google+'s lack of features are concerned, that's not a matter to worry about. Just think of Chrome. It was released just like 2-3 years back, lacked features, but now has such a huge app/extension/theme base, and is already the 3rd most used browser with over 20% market share, and expected to become the no.1 by July 2013. The same may(rather, will) happen with Google+ as well.
Google is not gonna sit back and watch the destruction of G+.

[Djlatino]

Google + is meh. I can't see any features they can add that both twitter and facebook don't have.

[Kedzi]

Indeed, I was active on G+ on the first week, now it's been like 2 weeks I haven't check it

[Mr Happy]

About the point ShareShiz that the Internet will never use real names, trends are showing the opposite and it's Facebooks long term plan to only have real names as Mark Zukerberg has indicated.

As for active users that's normal. Do you think every single member on KWWHunction is active? Of course not. It's probably less that 3% who could be considered active and remember all the banned and duplicate accounts. On Twitter less that 5% of users account for over 80% of tweets. And next time you hear a stat about Facebook read it carefully. 800 million members we hear which sounds great. You also hear stuff like 60% of active members log in once a day or spend 15 minutes online. Pay attention to how they say it. ACTIVE members. They only use members who've logged in in the last month to use these stats and that's why Facebook stats always sound so impressive. It's clever the way they word it so it makes you all think that over 500 million of their members log in daily which obviously is not how it works. Facebook has brainwashed ye and ye really need to read carefully and study studies like this more closely. Google has a far far higher active userbase as a percentage of it's total members.

Read studies carefully and don't be fooled.

[GoPantheoN]

Ya, people joined for something new, but Google failed to update more. People lost interest since they didn't have some basic features till now. It might be in development and people might come back after all the features are included. For now Google+ is not worth.

[Myth?]

I never even used that before lol.

[icestorm]

IMHO G+ better than facebook

[Ashleyuk1984]

To be honest I really can't be bothered to join yet ANOTHER social networking site.
I've had Faceparty / MySpace & Facebook.
About 99.9% of my friends are still active on Facebook, so until they decide to move over.. I'm sticking with that.

I personally think G+ came too late.

[nobleman]

Note that when facebook was launched it had something new to provide to the whole world, now G+ is launched it has absolutely nothing to provide other than what is already there on fb (though a bit modified). However, if Google+ launches voice-based statuses updates unlike facebook, I believe people would start migrating to G+ in large scale.