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Comment by onphonenow | Hacker News Reader

Google+ was good until google lost its mind and started shoving it everywhere- even I as a google+ user HATED this.

It was to me the social network for grownups without the Facebook clickbait - I liked the circles model too (I did one for professional stuff one for personal) and great photos support.

But then someone was put in charge who lost their mind and just started wrecking products (YouTube etc) with plus and it was chaos.

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Google+ was not popular though, the whole point of forcing everyone to have G+ was to get MAU explosion to rival FB. Without it, they would not compete in enough time.

It was a poor decision, and I agree as a consumer that this time period sucked. But I understand why the push was made. G+ only bet was to get everyone to use at once and right away. I don't agree with the assessment of someone losing their mind in this ordeal, it was the only option they had to otherwise be second bitch at best for perpetuity.

> It was to me the social network for grownups without the Facebook clickbait - I liked the circles model too (I did one for professional stuff one for personal) and great photos support.

There was probably no viable business model for that as it was, closest is LinkedIn, which is rife with influencers, grifting and inspirational chain mail.

Same. I was avid Google+ user. Circles were great. I had made many friends with varied interests.

I thought there was going to be a slow build in users as folks got sick if Facebook etc.

It was nicely contenty and bloggy feeling.

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