Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

What motivates a Google+ user to become and remain active?

Author: Sudarshan Murthy (first posted at http://bit.ly/plzjrR on July 19, 2011)


For no apparent reason, I wondered if Google+ users who have created circles but have not set a profile picture have also created posts.

So, I conducted a straw test: I picked some users in my circles, then randomly picked users in their circles, and so on: some users with pics; some without. After following about 100 users who have created circles but have not set profile pictures, I found one user with posts. (That user had exactly one post, ironically, wondering if it is worth using Google+.)

(I also noticed users with circles and profile pics but are yet to post anything. However, there were far fewer users of that kind.)

Of course, no particular conclusion can be drawn from the straw test, but it makes me curious to know: