What was the point of Google+?

data collection for cia, nsa and mossad

>>105681540 (OP)
troll everyone on youtube into setting their username to their real name

>>105681540 (OP)
Think Google World, phone, browser, computer, cloud storage, gaming, streaming, etc. Why did they kill it/ did it fail? I have no clue.

>>105681540 (OP)
a sad attempt to rip off facebook
>>105681555
and always this. always.
>>105681561
google made everyone mad with that and it was all for nothing.
>>105681570
> why
declining userbase.

>>105681570
>Why did they kill it/ did it fail?
G+ was a massive fail. Astronomical even.
The reason why, was because it didn't fill any missing place in the market. Google Plus was a directly competitor to Facebook, created only for this exact purpose.

This was during a time where Facebook was in great motion, and had already solidified itself as a leader in social media.
All the young people were already set up, and the older generation was slowly starting to as well.

Think about the situation from a users perspective.
You have a Facebook account. All your friends have an account as well.
Your social groups are connecting over Facebook, and Facebook hasn't made any big whoopsies at this point.
You're already set. So why should you then move to Google Plus?

The fact that Google was so indiscreet about this being a Facebook clone, maybe everyone make fun of them, and that only solidified the project as a failure.
Because now you don't just have to convince your normie friends to move away from a perfectly working platform, you also have to convince them to move a place that's riddled with ridicule, and seen as a failure from the onset.

Google Plus was destined to fail from the beginning, because it was made out of spite.
I never jumped the wagon myself, but did keep up with news, and when they finally killed it off, it was honestly for the better of the site itself.

I liked it. It was my main SN

>>105681540 (OP)
RUINED

>>105681540 (OP)
Life was better back then

>>105682341
You are deluded

>>105682355
Why?

>>105682394
Life was shit back then, just like it is shit today

>>105682400
Anon, if your life is miserable then change it. If you feel bad maybe take some antidepressant. You live in a country with possibilities that don't require money and free healthcare, right?

jpop idol groups posting their pics for their non-jap fans

>>105681540 (OP)
i was probably of the only few people actually using google+ as my main social media

>>105682400
Yes, but it was a little better, no?

Came out way too late to the Web 2.0 party.
I don't remember anything particularly bad about it outside of forcing YouTube accounts to convert to Google+ accounts. It was a worse version of what already existed at the time.

I'm surprised that they never bothered bringing it back to help fight the "evil right-wing X", but I guess they are all hands on deck on trying to win the AI slop race.

>>105681540 (OP)
Herd the normgroid cattle into giving their info.

Anyone remembers Google Wave?

>>105681540 (OP)
It was disastrous.
I only used for the exclusive levels on some games but they were bugged.
That chrome dimension Angry Birds world was unplayable

>>105682603
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT MY NAME NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
lol overblown nonsense. Never had to do this either it's funny my channel is still the same name it was in 2009.

>>105681540 (OP)
some googlefag wanted a promotion

>>105682068
uhhh mootbros?

>>105682068
>Doesn't kill /pol/ (/n/, /new/) before fucking off to G+
>Can't even make G+ a Netflix clone before fucking off
Being m00t is suffering.

>>105681540 (OP)
They tried to make a social network for people that did not want to expose all their information to the world like Facebook does.

>>105681540 (OP)
getting groomed in the undertale au groups by dudes who wanted sans genderbend boob inflation roleplay when you were like 11

>>105681989
>All the young people were already set up, and the older generation was slowly starting to as well.
crazy that now, years later only boomers are hooked on facebook, the youngers who lead its usage back in the day, now have moved on.

lots of answers here but honestly im not even sure if google knew the point of google+
like someone just said "we need a facebook" and gave zero other direction and it was born and then died and nobody ever cared. nothing was gained or lost and nothing was learned because google still just does shit and then shuts it down for no reason.

>>105681555
trips means its true

isn't google just the frontend to usenet? just create your own usenet provider

>>105681540 (OP)
they wanted a slice of the facebook pie.

Serious answer? Google saw where the internet was headed. A world where walled gardens like Facebook or Instagram would silo off information. A world where blogs and personal websites were dying off. A world where forums would die and people would coalesce around Reddit or Discord. They foresaw that most of the data on the internet would be firewalled behind these megasites. Google felt scared that they would lose access to most of the internet.

How do you search and index information on a facebook page, or a private discord group, or on Twitter? And as more normies started getting on the internet in the 2010s, these sites and apps would start being the bulk of the internet. Google decided they needed to create their own competitor so they could have access to this data so it could be searched, but they failed.

Today most people don't have blogs, most small businesses don't have their own pages, most communities don't have their own forum sites. It's all on Instagram, Facebook, Discord or Reddit. That's why Google searches suck. The Dead Internet Theory is real.

>>105681596
>declining userbase.
More like no userbase.
I've never even heard, let alone seen, a single individual that used google+. Even most companies organizations had no activity in the platform. It was dead on arrival.

They should have made Google+ a website where you can rent friends and every so often there'd be new friends to rent but some of the old friends would quit being your friends like netflix but for friends

>>105686102
Yeah haha pass the weed

>>105681561
I never changed it and in the end they ended up caving to me.

They should've open-sourced it after killing it off. It had some neat ideas but forcing upon every Google user was a horrific mistake.

>>105681540 (OP)
dunno. that Lifehacker lady wrote a whole book on how to use it then got cucked by it getting canceled. But maybe the book is out there and you can find out.

>>105682068
>>105685291
>>105685329
based Moot killing the botnet

>>105685329

Rather be moot than a raging tranny faggot commie like you.

>>105681555
fpbp

>>105681540 (OP)
the point is to rewrite it with rust?

>>105681540 (OP)
Mine you for data, like Facebook is doing.

>>105685764
>the youngers who lead its usage back in the day, now have moved on.
Not really, they're just older now. I got Facebook in 2007 I think, in my early 20's. I deleted my account in around 2012 but all my 40-something year old peers still use it. My kids have zero interest in it though.

>>105681540 (OP)
Baffling that Google already HAD a rather successful social network site before that... and yet they didn't try to promote it, instead they kept making design changes that made it worse.

>>105681540 (OP)
Generic facebook clone number 136
Possibly one of the biggest cases of a site shooting themselves in the foot that's ever happened. Nothing like sabotaging the biggest video platform in its name and pissing off all of its users to help your reputation.