i understand the excuse that people put up with facebook's flaws because so many of their friends are on it, but why are all of these early adopters putting up

i understand the excuse that people put up with facebook's flaws because so many of their friends are on it, but why are all of these early adopters putting up with google+? there is not a strong network effect going on there yet, there are no 3rd party apps or even a full api, there are hardly any celebrities or companies that users are joining just to follow, and it only seems to be used by early adopter tech-types. those same users are the ones that keep complaining about flaws like google's handling of pseudonyms and now this middle-finger baloney. if you don't like a new service and there is no compelling reason to continue using it, why are you using it and writing about it and continuing to drive traffic to it? just stop using it and there will be one less reason for others to keep using it.