Nicely explained. Great insights.
Where do I +1 ?

I wouldn’t call it a ghost town at all. I’m on it all the time having awesome discussions with hundreds of people with similar interests. In my news circle I have pages like New York Times, Boston Globe, Today, and other news outlets and in the comments section of posts I get to discuss with other people also interested in the subject. A lot of my favorite musicians are on G+ as well and I get to read posts about new albums and tours. I get all my news, entertainment, and current events through Google Plus. When twitter first came out for the first year or so the only people using it were people in the media or bloggers or journalists. You wouldn’t go to twitter and find all of your Facebook or myspace friends but no one called it a ghost town. It just needs more time to come into its own.

I tend to think of G+ as something more like Twitter, but without the silly 140 character restriction.

I have 5 times the number of contacts on G+ compared to Facebook. And in the next few months, I’ll have more contacts on G+ than Twitter.

My G+ stream is active, people are engaged and it feels far less spammy than what Twitter is these days.

The people who think G+ is a ghost town are pretty much the same people who logged on to Twitter and “didn’t get it”.

But it doesn’t really matter to me because I’ve had great engagement through the platform, better than I’ve ever had through Twitter. And with more new contacts than Facebook ever could / can deliver.

Most awesome ghost-town ever

Lol @ google employees

It’s not a ghost town. “Ghost town” would imply that people were there to begin with and went away.

I use Google plus from Lebanon and very satisfied and getting good results from it… a tv interview and an article in press.

I read this article and decided to check out my page for the first time in months. As I expected, there were no adds to be in anyone’s circle, and the last post from a friend came in November. There’s such a thing as being too bare bones, and when I first joined, it was difficult to even find people.

Also, this hot on G+ stuff is something that seems like it would be incredibly frustrating. I don’t care about some stranger posting a picture. It seems like G+ is the place to be for internet friends and nothing else.

I don’t like G+ that much.
I agree, I think it’s a virtual ghost town.

I really like the G+ format, and I have found the many experts in my Circles to be helpful and rewarding to my business and personal interests. I like Facebook as well, and feel that Facebook serves a different social function in the ever changing internet world and should not be pitted against one another,

I think that Google + in the beginning of a way and will reach большего, than Facebook. Possibilities Google as corporations more than Facebook. At Facebook there are no such possibilities for expansion and integration, as at Google. Through any time Facebook or will begin expansion of services and possibilities, or will search for the new owner.

I prefer LinkedIn… I dont use Google+ and only have lmited use for Facebook.. but overall find all these sites are useless and just a way to pass time when absolutely nothing better to do on a cold winter day

What I like most about Google+ is that it is not Facebook (which must be the greatest time-wasting device ever invented, but heaven for narcissists who assume that the rest of the world wants to hear about everything they do).

I’ve had a G+ account for a month or two but don’t have a lot of use for it. I don’t need a ‘news’ feed because I already know where to go for news. I’d like to include people I know in my circles, but so far I’ve only been able to find four people.

I find the “+1″ statistics to be rather obscure, and inconsistent with the “+1″ count on my websites. I have four (each of them has only one +1 button). For only one of them is the “+1″ count (almost, 17 or 18) the same as the ‘Audience’ number (the number of people who have +1′d my site) in the stats. Google says my ‘Hermetic Systems’ site has been +1′d by 4 people but the +1 count shows just 2. My ‘Serendipity’ site is most puzzling, because Google says 6 people have +1′d it, but the +1 count on the home page keeps oscillating between 0 and 1. I’d like to know why.

Google+ is still growing. People probably said the same thing when Facebook knocked MySpace out of the top spot. Frankly Google+ is positioning itself strongly for when Facebook finally takes that one step that will piss off most of their member. It’s getting close. A lot of people I know are doing a slow migration to Google+, Facebook has lost touch with the “real” needs of their members and has focused too much figuring out how to mine more information for their clients. If they don’t watch out the same thing that happened to MySpace will happen to them.