SAN ANTONIO – Is it time to declare Google+ dead?
This article in Forbes says not yet, but it's getting close. And I tend to agree.
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When Google+ debuted about a month and a half ago, it was all the rage. People scrambled for invites. More than 25 million signed up. Certain Internet celebrities made news for leaving Facebook and going solely with Google+.
And now? My feed of 80 or so friends has dried up. I, myself, updated Google+ for the first time in a couple of weeks last night. The advantages many people cited over Facebook (lack of spam, no games) are now irrelevant with the arrival of games and spam. In fact, the last ten accounts to follow me on Google+ appear to all be spam.
Will Google+ stick around? Sure it will. But it seems like we're on the downside of the diffusion curve - and that's not a good sign for Google.
I said several weeks ago, despite the Internet community making a big deal about privacy, I didn't think there were enough people so unhappy with Facebook to completely make the switch to Google+. It looks like that was the case.
Seems weird to declare one of the fastest-growing websites of all time dead after a couple of weeks - but we're getting there.
Dale Blasingame is the social media director at Beacon SEO, a searchengine/social media optimization company in San Antonio. He spent nineyears in the television news business, where he won two Emmy awards,and recently received his masters degree in New Media from TexasState University. Dale's thesis was entitled Gatejumping: Twitter, TVNews and the Delivery of Breaking News. He also recently presentedhis research to academics and professionals alike at the InternationalSymposium on Online Journalism.