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From the sample of people I follow, it really looks like the engagement is down from the early days: fewer posts, fewer comments and worst, fewer new accounts created.

I'm fully aware it is a completely non-scientific "study", but you would be hard-pressed to find anyone not working at Google saying "G+ is really thriving right now!"

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I totally agree. I really don't see people adopting G+. Besides, the UI is extremely slow to load compared to Facebook (you can observe this on slow connection when G+ page just loads and loads, and it is not even sharp and clean to look at. Of course I am contrasting with Facebook, what else one can do? (hence the irony).

Photographers seem to be enjoying it more than other "social platforms". Alex Wild (of myrmecos, photographer and entomologist) regularly notes that G+ is significantly better than "the rest" for photographers.

I'm not one so I wouldn't know, but he seems to genuinely prefer G+, and he is clearly more active there than on e.g. facebook.

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