Not to cry wolf, but imo Google+ is close to deadpool. To understand that, you have to realize how high of a ceiling anything like G+ coming out of Google would

Not to cry wolf, but imo Google+ is close to deadpool. To understand that, you have to realize how high of a ceiling anything like G+ coming out of Google would have to meet. It's incredibly high: they were taking on facebook. Unfortunately, from their behavior and celebratory posts about the success, they seemed to act as if the ceiling was a lot lower. I can understand if the team needs some internal celebrations but fueling it in the media imo does not help google plus. The media would go crazy either way. A more mature response from google would have been "this is nothing" - instead they prefer their PR hacks to to push a mostly useless stat like signup numbers. Celebrating 10 million users? Give me a break. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how social works. Facebook has always been about usage. And sure, you can argue that they only talk about usage because people use facebook a lot. By the same logic, when google+ does not talk about usage(preferring to talk about the less relevant signup numbers), what does that tell about G+? Hmm. Going gaga and fueling the tech media to give you more coverage? I'd argue any tech coverage of google plus hurts it more than helps it. Meet Google+, the new twitter - unless they do something radically different.