Facebook Gets Pluses From Google's Mounting Minuses

People only go to Google Plus to cross-post what they've already put up on Facebook.

I’ve been calling Google Plus a ghost town compared to Facebook, and now I can say that great minds think alike: The Wall Street Journal used nearly identical language.

Google Plus bores the daylights out of me every time I head over there on reconnaissance missions, and that’s not just because only an eighth of my Facebook friends have profiles on the newer social network.

My connections cross-post to Google Plus whatever they’re putting up on Facebook, and don’t stick around to do much else.

If anything, my contacts might spend more time cross-posting than the average person, who gives the newer social network just three minutes per month compared to 405 minutes a month on Facebook, according to comScore.

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