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Blast from the G+ Past

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This album was created on G+ by Google, from photos included in my +Blogger blog posts from 2006 through 2011. When I posted this album on August 29, 2011 I had 3403 contacts and the post received 90 +1s and over 30 shares. G+ was truly a vibrant community then. Yesterday with over 2,000,000 contacts, ranked #52 on G+ among individuals in the U.S. by +CircleCount (http://www.circlecount.com/p/+JeffreySullivan?), most active post had 42 +1s and no post had more than 1 share.

Yesterday on +Facebook, +Robert Scoble said,
"When I speak around the world I ask people what social networks they use. Nearly no one is on Google+. Google finally is realizing they lost. I don't see good things ahead for Google+."

Having invested a chunk of my life to the community, to the platform, I hope that +Yonatan Zunger and the Google engineering teams can resurrect G+, but I don't think that the core strategic problems or resolutions lie with +YouTube or other Google product integration, as the recent post by +Bradley Horowitz seemed to say.

Removing integration would be a required step towards dropping G+ or hiding the functionality inside of something else, so perhaps Scoble's thoughts offer some valuable insight.

I'm still rooting for Google+, but actions speak louder than words, and I'm not seeing much action, much life left in it.

#landscapephotography #ghosttown #gplus
www.MyPhotoGuides.com

Originally shared by +Jeff Sullivan

Images from my Blog
Here's an album Google+ auto-created from posts to my blog at www.MyPhotoGuides.com.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107459220492917008623/albums/5110510049163163345

I thought it was a regular Picasa album, so I started to delete duplicates… then after the first few dozen, I actually read the warning that doing so would also delete the photos from my blog. Oops.

Feel free to share these if you like (thanks!). I shared the album early on when I first joined Google+ and had few circle contacts, so few people have seen them so far.

        

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32 thoughts on “Blast from the G+ Past”

  9. Robert Forrister
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    I know how you feel. I used to get loads f +1's etc. Thankfully those few who remain have been awesome at commenting on my work etc. I will stay on G+ but have to share on Facebook as that is where it seems everyone is at the moment anyway.

  15. Richard Beebe
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    Aside from the obviously earned HIGH FIVE for your ongoing camera work +Jeff Sullivan , what do you see ahead? What cyber opportunities are also available?

    What, about this discovery of your old and new posting did you find most interesting? Disappointed with your m-a-n-y followers?

    Google figure that Facebook won the race, here. The sheer bottom-line numbers prove that.

    I would have expected you to have a lively, interactive audience here, Jeff. Your wonderful imagery and expressive written skills would warrant that. I'm a bit envious, actually. You and +Michael Frye always have my own attention. Others do, too, but I'll always pause to view and read your thoughts. (I don't think I can simply credit the particular and familiar natural neighborhood you wander most frequently. I've enjoyed your company a couple times; Michael I still have yet to meet.)

    So, where do you go for an audience?

    Compare Facebook to here – what are your observations and insights? Compare here to "wherever else" – what would it take to draw you away?

    Richard

  16. Jeff Sullivan
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    +Richard Beebe Fair questions, I'm a bit tied up with my book release, but I'll come back to them in time. A short answer is that Google screwed its biggest advocates in favor of Facebook users, so naturally Facebook won. Facebook is far from perfect, but Google is dead determined to remain far less perfect, so Facebook is "it" for the foreseeable future.

    I have to give +Robert Scoble credit for calling it in 2011, and again a few times since then.

  23. Daniel Schwabe
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    +Jeff Sullivan I share your perceptions… but I don't see any other alternative SN. While your statements reflect some of my experience, if I count the number of views (and not only +1s, comments or reshares), I still get two orders of magnitude more than Flickr or 500px, even when comparing with images on Flickr Explore or 500px first page. I recently had an image on Explore in Flickr which got >7k views; any image I post here still gets >40k to 60k views…
    If I'm to believe the counts on G+, I now have >1.3 billion views over all of Google properties. Even discounting Chromecast, it's still way more than any other SN.
    But the interactions are definitely loosing quality…
    Do you see alternatives?
    PS – Can't wait to see the book! Finally! When will it be out? 😉

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