FWIW I don't think that Google+ was a technological failure. On the contrary, it was quite a bit better than Facebook at being, well, social. The problem is tha

FWIW I don't think that Google+ was a technological failure. On the contrary, it was quite a bit better than Facebook at being, well, social. The problem is that it doesn't matter if all people you actually want/need to talk to are already somewhere else. You can't really peel users off one by one, because each of them has their social graph locking them in.