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The question is, what problem did Google+ solve?

• john-radio 8y ago
  It solved the problem of "It's 2016 and the fourth presidential debate. I want to post about Marco Rubio! But I don't want to annoy my non-political-junkie friends with this..." IIRC, Facebook had Friend Lists at the time, but it wasn't easy to share content exclusively with a friend list.
• ocdtrekkie 8y ago
  Google didn't have a social network, and their competitors did. /s Seriously though, I really liked the Twitter-esque default-public interaction model, but with long form posts. Just doubling Twitter's character count has helped a ton with this. Public interaction still feels like an oddity on Facebook. And then the ability to divide out people I was following was super nice, although I eventually filtered it down to two groups: One which I read religiously and had notifications of in my email, and one I would scroll through when I was bored and had time.
• stale2002 8y ago
  There was actually a brief period of time, right when google+ started, where everyone would just start a Google Hangout (which was released at the same time), and people were just chilling in the Hangouts. That experience was cool. It felt like modern social square, to just have open video chats, than anyone would just join.