Google+ has been quite a bit of a disaster. They wanted to tie everything to it, and it ended dragging down everything else. Nowadays, for a quick chat, Jit.si

Google+ has been quite a bit of a disaster. They wanted to tie everything to it, and it ended dragging down everything else. Nowadays, for a quick chat, Jit.si seems to be the easiest thing - it just works, you send them a link and get online.