16 July 2011

Google Plus One Invite – Does Provide an Extra Benefits?

Google+ brings a new way of experimenting with extra benefits that according to some already outweigh what Facebook are offering. According to Mashable via recent Google+ statistics, male users are more inclined to use the new service above females. In fact three quarters if not more users are male, with data company SocialStatistics reporting it to be 86.8% whilst

FindPeopleOnPlus which looks at an overall figure of approximately 1 million users, states 73.7% Google+ users are men. Looking at gender stats may be phased out due to reports that Google+ will not require users to state what sex they are, in relation to rival Facebook, the user traffic is fairly level pegging with a slight increase in female users.

One of the interesting features that Google+ networking offers its users, is that of “Circles.” We have to say we like this very feature, it enables your family to be in one group, friends in another, drinking buddies, sporting friends and so on in their own group. Additional features include Hangouts, Huddle, Instant Upload and the use of Mobile Sharing.

Google+ may be the hottest thing in social networking right now. According to Google+ analytics site Social Statistics, 8.67 out of 10 Google+ users are male. Even the makeup of the site’s top 10 most popular users matches the ratio overall; out of the 10 users with the biggest followings — which includes Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Larry Page and Google+ mastermind Vic Gundotra — only one is a actual real-life woman: famous actress, writer and gamer Felicia Day.

The number was touted by Larry Page during yesterday’s earnings call, during which Page announced that Google made a record-breaking $9.03 billion during the second quarter of 2011.

Outside of Google's walls, I have espied some numbers. More than that, though, it is surely a staple of Facebookian knowledge that social networking is driven by women. Just two years ago, an analysis of social-networking sites seemed to persuasively show that Digg alone stood as an example of a male-dominated social network. For Google+ to make a significant incision into the populace it has to feel like-- to a woman's eyes--the right place to be. So wouldn't you, if you were a Google engineer, be inviting as many women as you possibly could as early as you could?

Almost 25 percent of Google+ participants are engineers. Another 10.05 percent are software engineers. Another 13.57 percent are developers. But this doesn't include Web developers (4.23 percent) or software developers (3.67 percent). 94.09 percent of those who are officially "looking" for love on Google+ claim to be--drum rumble--men.

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