Google+ started his adventure well passing the ten million users threshold after a few days since opening and the twenty-five million users threshold after about a month. The particularly impressive fact was that these results were achieved even if Google allowed joining only through invitations and only at certain times. For example, after receiving an invitation I’ve been trying for several days before I could actually register.

With each passing week Google gradually removed restrictions and though it was still necessary to have an invitation after a while it became easy to join. Now Google+ begins a new stage where it’s officially open to everyone but is still so interesting?

When access to Google+ was limited, if you had an account you were cool and many people praised the clean interface and the system of circles of the new social network. Paradoxically, for a time the most famous person on Google+ was Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, who hasn’t just watched and during summer made ​​some changes to his social network to meet the assault of the new competitor.

With the gradual opening to registrations and the end of the initial enthusiasm many people gave up Google+ for various reasons, often because they kept on being active on Facebook and Twitter but few members of their networks moved to Google+ so after a while they didn’t have much to do on the new social network any longer.

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The situation is different for many other users of Google+, starting with professionals of networking and communication in general: for example, Thomas Power, co-founder of the social network Ecademy, and actress / writer / producer Felicia Day, are still very active and in the circles of thousands of users.

In essence, people who joined Google+ out of curiosity but basically thought they’d communicate with the same network they already had on Facebook generally got disappointed with the new social network and gave it up. People who joined it with the idea that they’d have a new channel of communication that could possibly include people already known but also others keep on being active with satisfaction.

We must also remember that these months were still a test for Google+. It’s only recently that Google has made its social network’s APIs available to developers so in the future many applications might be available. The latest innovations include searches within Google+ and hangout, the videochat.

Right now there are people who consider Google+ the best existing social networks and others who consider it dead, defeated by Facebook. Perhaps the reality is that the game is still all to play.