Because a random subset of fanboyish social networking addicts in the follower list of the kind of person who finds this stuff interesting enough to create a poll, is a representative sample of the average user.

This poll is statistically useless. There are 2 layers of self selection involved. The user has to choose to use Google+, and then, after having chosen Google+, the user has to choose to take this poll. So, given that, its not surprising that lots of people like Google+ on this poll.

Probably interesting to the person making the poll, to see how many of her followers liked Google+. Completely useless to anyone else.

Is it possible to like Google+ page on Facebook? That would be quite an indicator to get people to move en masse to Google+.

Trouble is Google+ is invite only. So over time, Google+ will lose some momentum and I'm expecting articles of 'G+ invite fatigue' any day now.

The big thing Google+ seems to be missing compared to Facebook is the ability to be a voyeur on other people's lives. I haven't used Facebook in years but I recall that was the thing that basically everyone spent their time doing.

Google+ seems to be much more focused on privacy and access control, which is exactly the thing that's going to prevent gossipy young people caring about it.

Invite only and centralised on techy beta users. The proof is in the pudding when my Nan, my Mum and my 10 year old nephew try ane use it and find none of their friends on it.

Meta: sad to see Hacker News dominated by so many pointless G+ stories. One story a day would be about right.

They should give you an invite if you like the Google+ page on Facebook!

Everybody knows that 73.2% of all statistics are made up on the spot, but I'm not sure that people know 97% of the rest don't measure anything useful.

Is Google planning to monetize Plus? At the moment, unlike on Facebook, there are no ads on the site. This certainly increases user satisfaction too.

I'm really surprised google did not try to launch this on colleges similar to fb's roots.

A lot of college kids have serious issues with fb's privacy features. Instead of google plus building bloatware like hangouts or huddle, a decent events and pictures feature along with a launch on a few campuses could have been very interesting.

As it stands right now, it risks becoming another twitter where the only people managing to get in are nerds or marketers looking for another venue to post the crap. For fb, these two audiences were probably at the bottom of the list. I remember commenting on venturebeat around 20006 as myspace hype was peaking about this little phenomenon called fb that VB folks should checkout once they are done going gaga over myspace.

I like it too, but the [lack of] critical mass of people I want to "share" with concerns me. Facebook, like it or not, has the mindshare.

I'll use it of course; maybe people will migrate like they did from MySpace. Then again, maybe I will too to the next thing.

I look at it as a chance to start over. I can keep my circles small and focused. And no Farmville!

People are still in the honeymoon phase, give it time.

Though I was thinking, if Google allows posts to also be auto posted to Facebook, but Facebook doesn't do the same same thing then people will trend towards using Google+ over the long term.

Biased, self-selecting poll. Meaningless.

Right now, I "prefer" Facebook because none of the invites people have sent me have even appeared in my Gmail inbox yet.

I wouldn't mind so much if the invites were there in my inbox and I clicked on them and the system just didn't let me in yet. But going silent is annoying, because:

  ME: "Dude, send me a Plus invite!"
  FRIEND: "I already did, idiot!"  
  ME: "I haven't received a thing!"

You really need to let these new Google services exist for a while before making any determination on how good it is. The people who got into Buzz and Wave early were initially quite enthusiastic, but, over time, no one really stuck with either service.

Seriously? A post about some google fan boys making a poll to other google boys and getting a high percentage? Flagged. Keep your circle jerks off HN.

And yet in a given day I have 50x the activity on Facebook as on Google+.

It's new.

99% work for Google.