Impossible: Google+ Becomes Second Largest Social Platform, More Impossible: They measured it by ACT

[PassTheBong]

[QUOTE=Lazor;39402597]how is active defined?[/QUOTE]

% of global internet users in the past month

[Killuah]

I realy like G+ for the groups, a function I NEVER use on FB. Also those circles are so much better than the FB stuff, quick and easy. I know FB has the same functions but everything is so... old-fashioned.

[Hellduck]

[QUOTE=Lazor;39402597]how is active defined?[/QUOTE]

By asking users if they are active on the sites.

[Cannsixd]

I love Google Plus, but none of my friends use it. I am all alone on there ;_;

[lum1naire]

I have a really hard time believing its bigger then Twitter, cause Twitter is pretty huge. I know Twitter has a huge inactive base/spam but its active user base is pretty large too

[mblunk]

I think the reason people underestimate the size of Google+ is because a lot of the communities are groups of random people from across the internet with similar interests, it's not just clumps of IRL friends like Facebook is. For example Google+ has a MASSIVE photography community, enabled by the vastly superior image sharing experience compared to other networks.

Also, these community circles make it very easy to have a nice, long discussion in the comments on a focused topic, something you rarely do with internet strangers on Facebook and something that's impossible to do on Twitter owing to the complete lack of organization beyond hashtags.

[redhaven]

[QUOTE=_NewBee;39402095]I really hate the way Google+ works with circles and all.
Why can't we just keep things simple?[/QUOTE]
The circles are what's awesome about Google+.

[lavacano]

i swear, half the thread is asking the same three questions over and over again ("how is data collected", "what's active mean", "are they lumping in YouTube/Gmail/Google Play/Picasa")

with all these repeats it's like I'm really on Facebook

[editline]29th January 2013[/editline]

WAIT I SEE IT NOW

All these repeats are really just a clever Facebook joke! SH, you're a bunch of fuckin' geniuses.

[SammySung]

It wasn't a matter of how they would flourish but when they would flourish.

#inspectorspacetimereference

[Techbot]

The only feature I use often is Google hangout. Screen share is like the best thing ever.

[Vintage Thatguy]

well all my friends at school always say get on google+ for some hangouts or some shit
just use skype you bastard

[That Sprite]

Just checked out G+. It's actually quite good, a welcome replacement for that other cancerous network site.

[coldroll5]

I'm not into social media but I could see this coming a mile away even a year ago.

[mblunk]

[QUOTE=Vintage Thatguy;39411217]well all my friends at school always say get on google+ for some hangouts or some shit
just use skype you bastard[/QUOTE]

Skype makes you pay if you want to have a group video chat. Not to mention it's bloated, unstable and insecure.

[maxofsteam]

[QUOTE=mblunk;39411377]Skype makes you pay if you want to have a group video chat. Not to mention it's bloated, unstable and insecure.[/QUOTE]

what? no you dont?

[E X C L]

[QUOTE=redhaven;39406481]The circles are what's awesome about Google+.[/QUOTE]

But some people just want one simple friends list, nothing more nothing less.

[Banned?]

[QUOTE=_NewBee;39413674]But some people just want one simple friends list, nothing more nothing less.[/QUOTE]

Then you don't add people into circles. What is so hard about that?

[Shitty Bill]

Bebo 4 lyfe

[NMDanny]

I don't understand how YouTube is after Google+, isn't it way more popular?
Unless it relates strictly to the social side(aka commenting on youtube vids, and not just viewing)