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LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner has said that he doesn't think that people will have the free time to use Google+.
Weiner was on stage at the Churchill Club last night and AllThingD's Kara Swisher asked him some questions based around social networking. The San Francisco Chronicle was on hand to report.
He said “Nobody has any free time. Unlike social platforms and TV, which can coexist, you don't see people using Twitter while they're using Facebook, or using Facebook while they're using LinkedIn.”
He said that the current system worked well, as people use Facebook for family and friends, LinkedIn for work oriented contacts and Twitter to broadcast thoughts and events to an audience.
He added “you introduce google+, where am I going to spend that next minute or hour of my discretionary time? I have no more time.”
Kitguru says: Are you running out of time to meet all your social networking demands? Have you had enough?
Why would he feel the need to get involved?
well au contraire i guess 18 million users using google plus now don’t count for much time does it? why does this CEO linkedIn have to say such a negative thing.
http://mashable.com/2011/07/20/google-plus-users/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29
I don’t think he’s right about free time. Say that a teenager sits four hours a day in front of Facebook. Of that time there must be at least an hour of downtime, in which she doesn’t read updates or posts, but only waits for something to happen. That’s a perfect time to go over to Google+ and see what’s happening there.
Or to put it an a way he’ll understand, people do use Facebook while they’re using LinkedIn. And they can also keep an eye on twits at the same time. The idea of doing one thing at a time is so Nineties.
Still, I’m sure that the idea of Google+ is not so much to allow spending the remaining down time, but to supplant Facebook. Not an easy task, but there are enough imperfect things about Facebook that it could happen. Years from now perhaps nobody will remember Facebook, like nobody has any idea what MySpace is.
Good point ET> i remember when myspace was the ‘in thing’. no one seems interested anyomore in it.