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I don't doubt that 60% of people use it daily. I personally click on that +Mladen button a couple of times a day at least. But I'm not so sure that they are using it in the same way as Facebook or Twitter.. that is to say for personal communication with their friends.

None of my friends are on Google+. But there are tons of really smart people that I don't know personally (although I wish I did), who post lots of great content for me to read, and consider and discuss. With this personal experience in mind, I believe the 60% are using it as a content discovery platform, not so much as a social network.. sort of like another Reddit/Twitter

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That sounds about right to me. Though obviously there's a spectrum there. One assumes Google's hope is that as the adoption grows, the "None of my friends are on" problem will progressively disappear. When some of your friends are on G+, you'll start posting stuff there. And until then it's a cool way to learn about the restaurants frequented by Lennart Poettering.

When it first launched all of my friends joined and began to post, including the many without facebook accounts due to tight gmail integration. But within a month or two almost all of them stopped posting. Whether they will come back is the question, a profoundly different one than whether they will join at all.

Agreed. I think the user base will continue to grow, mainly because more and more websites are adding the G+ button to get any advantage they can in SEO rankings, and that alone will fuel the growth over the next few months.

However I'm not sure how most users will feel about associating their online activity/searches with their social network.

Agreed. Pinterest, on the other hand, has the best "regular people" adoption I've seen since Facebook.

Looks interesting..got an invite?

I suspect this is Google's intention, at least for now. It's basically fancy twitter. It doesn't have much in the way of personal communication mechanisms (although huddle was weird and I'm not sure why they thought anybody would use it).

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