name a better site with better content??? ill wait. you think facebook is good??? which feature on facebook is used as much as hangout?? ill wait
active users are people who uses the stream/feed. I use twitter for 10 minutes a day. Facebook in 2004 was a niche site for college kids. google dont allow to import your friends from other sites....G+ content is great.
Did you not read a word I said?
It doesn't matter if G+ is better than facebook. It is not significantly so.
It just was not promoted aggressively and people have been given no incentive to drop facebook over it.
the google search engine was a pretty revolutionary algorithm and it was easily the best engine around.
you talkin about marketing campaign or reviews...you do realize google went big back when majority of people made serious websites using exclusively html tags ?
where would you find these 'reviews' ? some magazines or something ?
there was no unified hub of people gathering reviews. the message board community was in embryo stage.
nothing internet was being marketed extremely aggressively besides aol and shyt like that back in the day.
whats funny is that I agree with you in general...but the search engine was revolutionary.
Isn't that what I just said?
The Google search engine changed the game. Google + does not.
That's why people flocked to Google search. It didn't need to be marketed. But that approach hasn't worked for the majority of googles products because while they do offer some benefits over their competition, they aren't that much better.
In those situations, Google needs to market more aggressively, which is something they tend not to do.
sidenote: being cool or in with the fad crowd has nothing to do with it.
who uses apples ping?
edit.. I didn't even realize they had already killed it
email that i carry to this day. 
Forced
To Download It
When I just wanted to use Navigation!
used to be on it heavy when it dropped but now its just tumbleweeds 
