Google+ Dead?

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Not really seen a thread on this here, but then my search skills using vbul has always been pants.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/04/23/has-google-really-died/

http://www.slashgear.com/google-is-being-dismantled-and-thats-a-good-thing-02371639/

The basic premise is that hardly anyone actually uses Google+, and thus its on its death bed. I also then saw a post on the unofficial google blog...

http://googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/tweets-in-google-search-end-of-google.html

...and this kind of made me think, well yeah, whats the point of Google+ now?

Does anyone on here actually use it? The only positive thing I have ever seen come out of it, is the auto profile picture display when someone calls you and you don't have them in your contacts list on Android. That was pretty neat, plus also spooky at the same time!

Other than that, I also thought it was another social media micro bloging site that we had to look through as well as all the other ones. That said, who actually searches those sites via the provider? Or does everyone just use search browsers to do this as per the blog above and the fact that you will soon be able to search twitter from google again?
 
I don't think google+ was ever really alive, to be honest. I think they came into the game too late and the whole google+/youtube integration really damaged them.

Even as a tech person, I looked at google+ for about 10 minutes before deciding I'll just continue using facebook, instead.
 
Despite being deeply entrenched in the Google ecosystem, I've never used Google+. Although my emails, calendar, photos, videos etc... are backed up and synced to Google and linked to it - nothing is ever published, my profile hasn't been created and is not public.

I used Facebook - and that's the extent of my social media existence. And even then it's not a huge amount.
 
Google+ as a standalone service was pretty much stillborn. However it is now intrinsically linked to Youtube comments, so it won't die completely.
 
I actually found G+ to be a great concept. It was the best of Twitter and Facebook when it was launched, with a 'wall', 'newsfeed' and the ability to use hashtags and had great media integration. It was fast, sleek and I really liked it. Nobody outside the nerd community really 'got' it though, so it's never really got to its feet. I still use it for tech communities, Linux communities etc and they're really quite active. As a generic social media though it's pretty lifeless.

Facebook is evil anyway tbf. The amount of data mining, tracking and profiling is quite scary. I hate the thing, and only keep an account active to track family etc. I signed up to Diaspora (free and open social media) but alas it has no candy crush saga so 99.9% of the population don't actually care. 'Here, rape my personal data, I needz more gemz'. :(
 
I have a gmail account but only because I need it for YT. Google+ is something I hardly ever use. It's actually really annoying because I keep getting signed out all the time and then need to sign back in constantly to see who has replied to my YT comments. Very annoying. The sooner they bin it the better.
 
I used to use it before it started ranking highly when searching for me so I deleted it and filled it with false info. I'm anon again :).
 
If only. They achieved the impossible and made Youtube comments worse than they already were with the Google+ integration. Now most comments on popular videos are the equivalent of somebody's Facebook status and groups of people who know each other having a bit of a chat.
 
i think the whole invite only thing killed it off to start with, by the time it came to general release people had lost any enthusiasm for it. certainly the case for myself.

The auto backup is handy for phone pictures but other than that its pretty dead to me as well.
 
I actually follow a lot of people on Google+, all of whom are very active .... and none of whom are in this country. The number of posts I read on there is probably higher than the number I receive on my feeds on Facebook and Twitter combined.
 
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