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I'm not so sure it's wise to call G+ a "dead" social network. According to recent research by Pew, it's more popular than Twitter and just as popular as LinkedIn.

http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/section-2-social-media-...

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Depends how they define "use" - as this article[1] points out "Technically, tons of people use Google+, since logging into it gives you access to Gmail, Google Drive, and all of Google's other apps."

If the numbers there are right and only 4-6 million people are using it as a social network it isn't very surprising that Google would be "giving up on pitching Google+ as a social network"

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-to-google-plus-...

It's currently impossible to create a Youtube playlist without a G+ profile.

Every time I want to create a new playlist, I create a new G+ profile, then delete it immediately afterwards. It is tedious. I'm sure many other people, when faced with roadblocks like these, create a do-nothing profile but don't bother deleting afterwards.

Even better, Google is deprecating the OpenId login to push Google+; the new OAuth login _requires_ you to have a Google+ account. So if you use your Gmail for say StackExchange, get ready for your Google+ page!

I don't think this is true. Google is pushing Google+ login, but you can use that without a Google+ account, and the normal OAuth2 login is still around and not being depreciated.

> I'm sure many other people, when faced with roadblocks like these, create a do-nothing profile but don't bother deleting afterwards.

Or don't use playlists and find other websites.

It's pretty hard to find as much content as Youtube elsewhere, from experience all the youtube-wannabe websites have tremendously less content. Or do you have a link?

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

Just sayin'..

I made this a few years ago:

http://www.cueyoutube.com/

Try this for youtube playlists: http://instadj.com

LinkedIn and Google+ have all the appeal of filling out tax forms.

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