social gardens, like what google+ could have been. but greed and internal team politics led to the demise of the project. and this is an outsider's remark by t

social gardens, like what google+ could have been. but greed and internal team politics led to the demise of the project. and this is an outsider's remark by the way. greed because google+ was chasing after an ever increasing monthly active users. internal team politics because of spamming. it made no sense, to me at least, that the same company that gave us gmail could not deal with spamming on google+. spamming has also become rampant on youtube as well. so yeah, google has been there and abandoned the idea.