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Sorry, I'm in the minority that actually liked Google+.
Circles were a good idea
I thought circles was the best idea. I loved having a bit more control over posts. Unfortunately, only two of my friends used it, so it was worthless for me for the most part.
Circles prevented over sharing with the wrong people, which is the entire business model of social media.
I enjoyed it as well. It was pretty cool. Then I became busy with other stuff and one day I heard the news that G+ would be shut down.
If only you stayed active on it, Google wouldn't have shut it down.
Kidding lol. I used it too, it was pretty sweet. It felt like a mix of Twitter and Tumblr.
It was a pretty cool platform but their biggest problem was making it invite only, therefore forcing it to be smaller than competing platforms. Invite only may work for Gmail but not for social media.
I also enjoyed Google+. I liked the app and the interface. The content was pretty good for a bit.
I don’t really know what is the problem with google+ except they are born in the wrong time where Facebook are still on the rise, instagram is new and trendy and Zuckerberg is not dreaming on metaverse
One of the things that probably killed it was Google enforcing people to use their real names on there. Which of course affected also commenting on YouTube as well.
I quite liked Google+ overall. Would have been good to have a proper competitor to Facebook.
I never had my real name on it. Someone said it was based on the real name field of your email address, but I also never had my real name in that.
Sometimes when I leave google reviews, the business owner will respond and be like "Thanks for the 5 star review, Firstname!"
Ive been using Firstname Lastname since I was born, which was 01/01/1900.
Are you my neighbor by any chance? I live at 123 Main Street, Anytown 45678
Nah, I live across the way, at 123 Streets Rd, Cityville. Nice place.
them trying to hype it up by being invite-only for the longest time probably didn't help, either.
What did you like about it? It was basic af from what I remember. It was a FB clone, at best.
One of its plus points (no pun intended) was that it was the first social media platform to allow more granular control over who saw your posts. You could people to 'circles' and limit posts to which ever circles of friends you selected (if I'm remembering this correctly).
I think at that time on Facebook, you only had the option of Public, Friends or Private. It spurred Facebook on to introduce more granular control as well. So if nothing else, Google+ was good for that.