Don’t get us wrong, we love Google +, but there is something about the way people are promoting its growth that is irking us.   Yes, Google + did get 10 million users in the less than two weeks, and yes it has 25 million users in less than a month and yes that’s great!  But please, all you pundits out there, please do not show us this graph again, it’s ridiculous.

Why is it ridiculous?

Let us answer that with another question:  What made Google + go viral?  The answer is all the other little icons they are comparing it to which Google + is trying to beat.   Google + would have never had this growth rate without Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin  (but not myspace lol).  So basically, if ( and that’s a real if) Google + does reach any of the top three in actual users, it should thank them first, right before crushing them…

Google + now has 25 million of the most tech  and social media  savvy , will this little army be able to convert the 780 million on Facebook?   At this point, Twitter, Linked In and Facebook are complementary; they don’t really step on each other’s toes. But Google + is ambitious, its real success is dependent on the failure of one or more of the current 3.

So moral of the story is let’s wait and see. The product is good, the idea is great, the real question is if the baby-boomer, who just got a grasp of how to upload a picture on Facebook is willing to switch right away.