Google+ to Become Second Largest Social Network in U.S. in One Year, Says Survey
Can Google+ draw enough users in a year to get more common in the US than either Chitter Beaver State LinkedIn? A newfound Bloomberg-YouGov sight says yes.
The online survey of 1,003 US adults interviewed from July 29 to Honorable 2, 2011 suggests Google+ is following in Facebook's footsteps.
"Google+ is trace a path similar to Facebook's initial growth – building excitement in a nucleus of early adopters. For Facebook, it was college students. For Google+, that path is young, numerate, single men who are heavy cyberspace users," said Michael Nardis, head of YouGov Investiture Products, in a statement.
Some 13 percent of adult Internet users in the US have already connected Google+, and other 9 percent plan to augury up within 12 months:
And 16 one thousand thousand America online adults plan to link Google+ in the next twelvemonth, according to the Bloomberg-YouGov survey. If this holds even, Google+ is positioned to surpass Chitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace in US membership.
The social network's early adopters are a "highly engaged" bunch, generally inexperienced, male, and educated. Xlv per centum of Google+ users say they record contentedness at least once a day–only Facebook's 63-percent rate is high.
Hardly under half (46 percent) of Google+ users Emily Post content–including status updates, links, and so on–at to the lowest degree once a week. That estimate is similar to Twitter's 42 percent.
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The appraise ISN't all sunshine and lollipops for Google+, however. Nearly a third of early adopters have either abandoned their accounts already, operating room haven't til now created any substance for them. (Include Pine Tree State in the latter category.)
So what does information technology all entail? While the early-adoptive parent numbers pool are encouraging for Google, the high desertion rate is cause for concern as well. At one time the novelty of Google+ wears off, volition the young, tech-savvy males stick around, or will they devolve to Facebook and Twitter?
And will these early adopters successfully carry their friends, family and colleagues–many of whom English hawthorn already be suffering from some stage of social networking ennui–to face pack up their contacts, photos, and bon mots and migrate to Google+?
As Look Engine Land's Greg Superior points out, the Bloomberg-YouGov survey is, well, precisely a follow: "Very often attitudes expressed in surveys are quite dissimilar than behavior turns out to be," he writes. Quite true indeed.
Contact Jeff Bertolucci via Twitter (@jbertolucci ) or at jbertolucci.blogspot.com .
Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/481703/google_to_become_second_largest_social_network_in_us_in_12_months.html
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