Because outside of Silicon Valley, Google+ is perceived as a ghost town. Every time someone says this in a HN thread, dozens of people respond with cute anecdo

Because outside of Silicon Valley, Google+ is perceived as a ghost town. Every time someone says this in a HN thread, dozens of people respond with cute anecdotes about how great their experience is, but this place is like an echo chamber. If you actually go out and get the public _perception_ of G+ it's quite negative. I mean Vic got his big G+ talk at I/O completely cut off for the sake of another product. That should show you the shift in Larry and Sergey's priorities