This is a theory floating around the web, becoming the elephant in the room, and as sad as it may be to me….it could be true, or Not, Hit the Jump.
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Listen, I have been Promoting and Pushing G+ since it 1st appeared, and Still believe it’s good for content for say my Tech Posts, and they do have close to 100 Million user’s, but even with that, there is NO real excitement. And the people that I do know that have G+, haven’t used it(except for the techies, cause of the Tech content on there), so that is what brings us to this question, is G+ failing?? Honestly, it’s still hard to tell, I mean Google has the resources to keep G+ going for a while, and they will because they want to be in the Social Network race, and if there is 1 thing I’ve learned from being at Hot 97 for SO long(almost 15 years), it’s that if you keep giving out something for long enough, people will start to like it(I Personally LOVE the Way G+ is Integrated in All Google Product, But I have since the beginning)! AND we also know that Google will tweak the hell outta something in order to make it the way you want it. So IF G+ is slowing up or ‘failing’ at the moment, we have to watch the whole movie to get to the end, nah mean.
Now I do have a suggestion, G+ you need to le your hair down a little, I mean I understand trying to learn from Twitter, and face book’s mistakes, like Spam, but now that you have that kinda locked down, you need to open you API up up so App developers can add you to their mix! I mean you want excitement, that would do it, people are gonna check out NEW Apps, and NEW Tech, and nobody want to miss out on the next Big thing, and they use what they know and have access to in order to show they are on something NEW, and right now, twitter and Facebook have a hold on that, so if you really want to be in the race, open up that API famo, integrate yourself into this Digital World!!!!
Everyone who says that Google+ is failing, or that it’s boring, or that it’s slow have one thing in common: a SEVERE misunderstanding of what Google+ is, and, more importantly as a user, how it works. Those who find it “slow” find it so because they only circled 5 people who are their friends. OF COURSE IT’S GOING TO BE “SLOW”! Even Facebook would be “slow” if you had so few people in your News Feed.
The problem is that people want to treat Google+ as if it were Facebook. It’s not Facebook, nor is it even trying to be Facebook! If you had to compare it to an existing network, it would be more accurate to say that Google+ is Super-Twitter. Both networks are designed for you to share common interest with new people, not to keep tabs on old friends.
Simply put: If your stream is slow on Google+, you’re doing it wrong and it is your fault! Circle a stranger or two!
Also, Google+ **is** Google. People who think that Google is merely making a social network are looking at it in a very short-sighted manor. The name alone tells all. Google+ is the platform that ties together what Google currently has as services and makes them features of a single service. Everything is slowly being integrated with Google+.
Lastly, the author is 100% correct in saying that Google needs to release more (and better!) APIs so that developers can take hold of Google+ and create the types of apps that will help Google+ flourish. The mobile app is pretty good on Android, but I would absolutely love to have a desktop app for it as well. Sometimes you just don’t want to go to a website. Apps are what helped Twitter take off, and it will do the same for Google+.