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LinkedIn CEO says no room left for Google+
by NeelamGoswami - July 19, 2011 - comments
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner claimed Google’s new social networking site will struggle as it doesn’t fit into the established social network regime dominated by three powerful players: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
Google+, the new social network from Google, has been live for more than three weeks now. In less than a month of its operation the beta site has gathered more than 10 million users. But, seemingly, Google Plus (+) is not appealing to LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, who thinks nobody has free time for this new social networking web site.
In yet another attempt to compete with wildly popular Facebook, which has over 750 million members, Google late last month introduced its own social networking service called the Google+ Project.
While Google+ has grown fast in its first couple of weeks, garnering over 10 million users, the move is being touted as the internet search giant’s most ambitious social-networking effort yet to take aim at Facebook's growing internet empire.
LinkedIn CEO’s perspective about Google+ is negative
Contrary to those assumptions, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner thinks there is no way Facebook and Google+ can co-exist, and says it's likely the latter will lose battle in the fast-growing social networking arena.
“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.”--LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner
Weiner claimed Google’s new social networking site will struggle as it doesn’t fit into the established social network regime dominated by three powerful players: Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
No room left for Google Plus
The LinkedIn chief was speaking at the Churchill Club this week when Kara Swisher, co-executive ditor of AllThingsD.com asked him some questions based around social networking.
When asked whether Google+ could coexist with Facebook, Twitter and his own LinkedIn, Weiner replied, “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 went on to say that people generally use LinkedIn for professional life, Facebook for family and friends, and Twitter to microcast thoughts to audience. This leaves no room for any new social network.
But “you introduce google+, where am I going to spend that next minute or hour of my discretionary time? I have no more time,” he added.