tl;dr of this my comment: G+ never died, it leveled out and waited. Now that users are looking for real alternatives to FB, those of my generation plus-or-minus

tl;dr of this my comment: G+ never died, it leveled out and waited. Now that users are looking for real alternatives to FB, those of my generation plus-or-minus one are heading to G+. Expect G+ to grow over the next while as FB declines. Skipping past the HN echo chamber of agreeement that Google+ is indeed dead.... I've not used G+ much as I find it too Pinterest-y in style, just too hard for my linear, "tell me what's new" mind to navigate. Lately, I've been far too busy to use FB, which, with SocialFixer installed, is a reasonable platform for seeing what's new in my social circles. Most of the time, should I have have something to post, I post it to FB; if it is particularly geeky, I also post it to G+. This morning, after quite some time away from both, the number of friends, business associates, and acquaintances awaiting me on G+ was staggering. More and more people from my most of social circles are joining G+, except those who are either social-network-impaired or facebook-diehard. My guess is that they are wondering what social network might be for them, now that FB has changed one too many times and made it all that much more evident that we the users are there to be consumed. Most of my generation plus-or-minus-one won't head to Instagram, etc., these are for the young folk. Expect to see more of us middle agers on G+.