Google "Ghost Town" Plus

Google may claim that his social networking site, Google +, has 100 million users by early April 2012. However, a study says otherwise, such as Google + quiet "ghost town".

Many "residents" but minimal activity, that's roughly the picture for Google +.

Based on a survey carried out RJ-profit research institutions to 40 thousand metric + Google users based on a random sample, it was noted that the involvement of Google antarpengguna + is quite low.

According to RJ Metrics survey, each post gets an average of only one "+1" (a kind of interaction "Like" on Facebook) and a reply anyway.

In addition, there are about 30% of Google users + the new one to make a public posting on the social networking and never again make a second posting.

Active users on average do a post every 12 days, even 15% of Google users who have made 5 + posts never again make a public posting.

The number of publicly posting the average of all active users continues to decline each month.

Research carried out RJ metric is only focused on the activity of posting. This makes Google the silence.

"By just doing the tracking in public posts, the study is flawed and does not accurately represent the range of activities and sharing that occurs in the + Google," Google said in a statement to the tech site Fast Company.

According to Google, Google activity + more privacy because users share with the people in the "Circle", no need to openly share ideas, photos or videos to the world.

This is not the first study that describes Google + as a "ghost town".

The results of the survey research firm comScore said in January 2012, most users only spend 3.3 minutes on Google +, while Facebook users "hang out" for 7.5 hours on social networking site that belongs to Mark Zuckerberg.

Pew Internet & American Life Project also found 52% of Facebook users and 33% of Twitter users are actively involved in the daily social networking.

Google's Vice President for Engineering, Vic Gundortra, in an article in The Times once called Google + is "a social blanket that wraps the whole experience at Google."

In other words, users who log-in with a Gmail account and then use YouTube or Google search engine, they are accounted for using the Google +. In this way, Google says Google + is the fastest growing product in the history of the company Google.