My view is that G+ was better, by design, for users but that design was intrinsically less viral, which led to its downfall. Sharing was readily limited to thos

My view is that G+ was better, by design, for users but that design was intrinsically less viral, which led to its downfall. Sharing was readily limited to those for whom information was intended, and open/clean design with a total absence of ads encouraged thoughtful interaction. (<checks G+, as it's been a long time> yep, still no ads.) Management that chose to be better toward users' true interests unfortunately yielded something insufficiently FB-like to counter FB's huge existing-network advantage. Thank you, G+, for showing us how such a network could be better. It was.