{"id":50189,"date":"2012-05-16T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=50189"},"modified":"2012-05-16T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T06:44:07","slug":"google-struggles-with-user-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/50189-google-struggles-with-user-activity.html","title":{"rendered":"Google+ struggles with user activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><a title=\"Google+\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google+<\/a>, the search giant\u2019s social network which launched in September 2011, may have healthy user numbers, but new research shows that actual user activity on the network is far from impressive.<\/p>\n<p>The social network boasts 100 million users (as of April 2012), however, analytics firm, RJ Metrics revealed that there is a low amount of activity among Google+ users.<\/p>\n<p>The RJ metrics report showed that an average post on Google+ gets fewer than one \u201c+1,\u201d (similar to \u201clikes\u201d on <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>), and less than one reply.<\/p>\n<p>Links and publicly shared items on Google+ only get re-shared 0.17 times by others, and users will only post information once every 12 days, on average.<\/p>\n<p>The report also showed that usage per user declines each month after they make their first public post.<\/p>\n<p>Another cause of concern for Google &#8211; roughly 30 percent of users never make a second post on Google+.<\/p>\n<p>Google responded to the results of the study, with a spokesperson noting:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy only tracking engagement on public posts, this study is flawed and not an accurate representation of all the sharing and activity taking place on Google+. As we\u2019ve said before, more sharing occurs privately to circles and individuals than publicly on Google+.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The beauty of Google+ is that it allows you to share privately \u2013 you don\u2019t have to publicly share your thoughts, photos or videos with the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/05\/15\/google-plus-social-usage-study\/\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s social network is struggling to boost social activity and user engagement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[161,167],"class_list":["post-50189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50191,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50189\/revisions\/50191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}