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Google+ Registers 25 Million Visitors
hypnosec writes "Google Inc.'s new social networking platform Google+ is one of the first to boast of more than 25 million users in less than one month of the launch. Market research firm comScore in its latest report has revealed that Google+, which was launched to masses in late June, has managed more than 25 million visitors in a month and is recording around a million unique visits every day." I've been using G+ for awhile now, but since the grandparents will never leave Facebook, I'm still stuck with 2 systems.
Do as I did, only post baby photos on g+ and lure with hangouts with the baby :)
This article seems to be confusing the number visitors with the number of registered users.
The source they're citing says visitors.
It's not much of a surprise that a new site by a popular brand would have a lot of people visiting their site in the first month.
If they boasted that many registered accounts in that time, it'd be even more impressive but, guess what, they didn't.
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Google+ (at least for the meantime) does not have "apps" posting to everyone's wall/stream, so I consider that a big benefit. Also the "circles" concept was simple enough for my 60 year old mother to understand, but facebook groups was not. Google+ is not totally inundated with spam (yet). Aside from things like sunk cost and the network affect (everyone you know is already on fb) there's not much good reason to use FB in my opinion. The ability to download all the data you'll post to G+ is an additional big plus for me, even though it doesn't necessarily mean anything to average joe.
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Has Google fixed the policy to ban an account Google-wide if the G+ account is closed? I've had an invite but haven't joined as I don't want my other Google products (blog, photo depot) to be at risk if some jerk(s) or computer bug decides my real name isn't real enough.
This seemed to make a big buzz a week or so back, then just die off, so I'm not sure if they fixed it or if, like most other social networking stuff, everyone just decided to live with the nasty policies.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
So much for Facebook. It's dead. It's for "old people".
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ah, so it's a Release Candidate now
You can already do that.
1. Edit your profile.
2. Click on the item that you want to edit, Occupation for example.
3. Click custom
4. Add circles or individuals to the list
Now only people/circles that you added can see that specific profile data.
The killer feature would be differentiating relationship status ("married" / "single") depending on the circle ~