At less than a week old, Google+ is still in its infancy but those lucky enough to have received an invite so far probably have a good idea whether they like, dislike or are indifferent to Google’s new social platform.
We had been keeping our eye on a similar (well, identical) poll over at Twtpoll, but it seems that it crashed not long before it hit 500 participants. So, we thought we’d create our own survey as we really are keen to get a consensus on Google+: yes or no.
This short survey will help us get an idea of what you’re all thinking of Google+ so far, and whether it’s a match for the two other social networking behemoths….Facebook and Twitter.
If you can spare 30 seconds, we’d love to get your thoughts on Google+:
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I would love Google+ to replace Facebook
I’m not so sure about Twitter (i’ve always used them for different purposes one more professional marketing and a bit of football commentary and my facebook profile as a personal place to keep up with friends etc)
All in all I think its an amazingly usable service for one in its infancy clearly a lot of thought has gone into the site flow etc. If you havent checked it out…do. jpruetting put it really well i’m obviously paraphrasing but i think it gets the general point across: that the already established googler’s and gmail users (outside of the early adopter demo’s may be more likely to embrace the switch) they are gonna fucking love it its now a singularly branded comprehensive suite of online tools and not a disjointed variety of products under the google name.
@livefyre > Awesome another site using livefyre I have it on my own (http://www.dannydev.com/blog)
I would really love Google+ to replace Facebook, but not twitter, as I use twitter for something differently than Facebook. I’m hoping Google+ turns out to be a success, unlike Buzz and Wave.
@Edgard El-Cham yeah i agree i mentioned using facebook for keeping up with purely personal stuff and twitter for public self promotion and marketing so they tend to have different posts/audiences the combination wouldnt be a great benefit to me
For me, Twitter is much more than Facebook. More meaningful than FB.
Can you guys share the results?
To replace FB, G+ will need to get the casual market of FB with all the crap that come with (pointless survey, social games, “what i had for diner” status). G+ is likely to be for people who hates facebook for been a social junk.
I definitely think Google+ has the potential to be a big player in this game, but it is too early to tell. It definitely depends where Google goes with the platform.
For all the people saying they use Twitter for something different than Facebook, isn’t that what Circles are for? In my opinion, the beauty of Google+ is that it can function as Twitter, and it can function as Facebook. Personal stuff gets sent out to certain circles, while the marketing and self promotion stuff gets sent out out other circles.
to me the point is that g+ could become both email, fb and twitter, since it is so easy to share with different circles – you could have a circle for your fb updates and one for your twitter and the would never have to meet + you send personal messages in the same stream. i love that
@Eric Richardson – like that we posted the same thought at the same time :)
Its still not clear as to what the potential of Google+ is and what it will develop into. @manishd a seasoned entrepreneur in the Social Media space explores the various aspects of this question on http://www.delhiplanet.com.
@Jean-Martin C. Supposedly Google is going to roll out “Google Games” or something similar soon. There’s been a lot of time and resources devoted to it, so it’s something they’re banking on drawing a lot of people. Personally, I *hate* Facebook games – but what I’m hoping is that the Google developers are smart enough to see this dichotomy and offer the integration of Google Games into G+ for those who want it, and allows those who don’t to block those updates/invites from their feed. *fingers crossed*
Google+ is boring.
This is a blatant and eerily hollow attempt to copy Facebook and Twitter, but five years too late. Google’s strategy has degraded, from innovation a decade ago, to a chronic pattern of imitation and acquisition today.
Remember Google Wave? That was meant to take on Twitter. It’s already abundantly clear that “Google+” (confusingly named like their recently launched “Google+1″) will be yet another GFail.
What makes this most laughable is that this is a lesson in social, preached at us by people who presumably don’t have many friends (Google geeks).
Take a close look at MySpace, Bebo, etc. Facebook has plenty of competition but nothing can come close. Google Buzz attempted to copy Twitter already, and failed spectacularly — and every aspect of Google+ demonstrates that the arrogant Google geeks have learned nothing, and that they manifestly refuse to accept let alone learn from their mistakes. :)
@Tim Acheson It’s always difficult to come and fight over an established giant like Facebook.
I think G+ has his place in this world because without any competition, there is no need for innovation. G+ doesn’t revolutionize the social network, but it’s too young to pretend they will not. There is need for something different, Twitter is an excellent example of it.
G+ should listen to the user and understand what they want. People are creative, Facebook don’t let us express ourself. Fb is only a name tag saying “Hi, my name is ans I like that …”. Google should definitely take a different way to make a social network that let us be really social. After all, being social is being ourself and I definitely doesn’t find myself in a name tag.
Like all the other responses, I have the similar views about the new SNS(Social networking site) Google+ but I would like to talk about something that is Google’s forte. The company has such vast resources to put into Google+ that it has the potential to topple Facebook. What Facebook did was to-Make friends and keep in contact. In that aspect, they succeeded and with the future introduction of Skype on Facebook the whole world will be able to do Facetime. This is where Google+ differentiates, what its trying to do is, not letting us make/discover friends but strengthen the bond between the relationships. If you don’t get my point, you should have a look at Wosju’s video, they have a scene where a relationship line between two people is BOLD than the other people. That’s what Google+ is-strengthening the bond.
@Chris Kent@manishd I see what you did there! Putting Louis Lane’s picture and acting like Superman..but TNW has krypytonite powered faihhful users :P
@Mette Kærlig Hilsen Probably not..if that would be the case, then they would be a status updating site or sharing site.
@Brandi @Jean-Martin C. Google has been experimenting with a lot of using WEBGL technology and I am giving you a link of a game that I personally like and I want you to know how they are implementing these in Google products-http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/sinuous/?f=#i mean..with the talent pool that they possess, they can power their network with high quality games..I just hope that in the future Gmail and Google+ is ADS free!
@Brandi @Jean-Martin C. Hmm..pressing shift+enter should have separated the I after the hast tag.
I am glad the TNW got inspired to create an identical poll (same questions) based on the one I had created over 6 days ago at TwtPoll. It was originally created just for fun and to gauge the reactions of the early adopters. It stopped working briefly this morning but it is working fine now. Did not expect such a huge response to it. With about 690 votes so far it shows that 95% like Google+ ; 70% expect it to succeed ; 81% prefer it to Facebook and 55% to Twitter. Of course, the results have to be taken with a grain of salt based on the fact that they are from early adopters. But it is strong showing for Google+ nevertheless and shows one thing for sure – the early adopters are loving it so far.
@arun Hi Arun, thanks for your comment. Yes, unfortunately your survey was offline for several hours yesterday so we weren’t able to glean results from it, at the point it went offline it was at about 350 people which wasn’t enough people. Hope you understand.
And looking at your own figures, it’s good to see they’ve produced very similar results. But yeah, the proof will be once it’s opened up to the wider public.
I’d be interested to know how many people responded to the survey and of those who participated and said they would switch to Google+ why they would? How they use facebook, how often, how many friends they have, etc. It could be “nominal” fb users that want to switch because their social network is small, has lots of loose ties or is used infrequently.