Sensationalist title aside, I think Google+ and Flickr fill two different niches: the former is for the social sharing of images, whereas Flickr appeals more to

Sensationalist title aside, I think Google+ and Flickr fill two different niches: the former is for the social sharing of images, whereas Flickr appeals more to a professional/enthusiast group. One thing is that Flickr puts control of image copyrights into the user's hand, whereas G+ doesn't really have that at all. To that end, someone looking to protect their images would seem to prefer Flickr, I should think.