With social network Facebook and microblogging site Twitter virtually dominating the social media scenario, Google's September 2011-luanched Google+ social network is still to gain popularity; interestingly, even among its own creators!

Widely dubbed as the Internet's "ghost town," the Google+ social network - which was launched by Google with the aim of challenging Facebook - came under the scanner this month, with new website, known as `Google Plus Ghosts', scrutinizing its usage.

According to a revelation of sorts by the Google Plus Ghosts website, the profiles of one-third - or 33.3 percent - of the Google employees on the company's social network have not been updated during the last one-month period.

Disclosing that a notable percentage of Google employees do not update their Google" profiles for months at a stretch, the Google Plu Ghosts website said that - out of a total of 2,000 profiles analyzed - approximately 21 percent of the Google employees have not posted anything to their profiles in the past three months.

In addition, Google Plus Ghosts website - created by Yousaf Sekander, director of RocketMill digital marketing agency and the developer behind Social Crawlytics URL metrics site - also revealed that nearly 13 percent of them have shown no Google+ activity in the past six months.

Noting that Google employees do not post anything to their Google+ profiles regularly, Google Plus Ghosts said: "Google's employee activity on Google+ is discouragingly low."