My recommended friends list is filled with people I'm actually close with, presumably pulled from my Gmail contacts, but the fact that we haven't added each other yet describes just how little we care about this new network. Out of those, only two post anything at all to the site, and the majority don't even have profile pictures yet, an indicator they haven't returned since day one. As active as I am in social media and the latest and greatest internet trends, I have 26 people who have added me into circles, only 8 of them being people I wanted to add back, as for all Plus's claims of privacy and intimacy, I don't know most of the others. My profile tells me everything I need to know about Google Plus, and I suspect the same is true for many others. Google can launch a product that fixes Facebook's issues, and even looks a touch nicer to boot, but its biggest flaw is simply something it can't overcome. Their gripes aren't from the layout, or even the privacy settings, as much as internet outrage over the suspect Terms of Service would have you believe. If anyone is annoyed by Facebook, it's simply that they're tired of using it. Now Google has fallen into the same trap with Plus. But how many millions were invested in the idea? Did they really think they had come up with something to unseat the emperor of search? So why on earth would anyone feel the need to switch to Bing? It may work yes, but to the average user, it doesn't offer anything above and beyond what you'd find with Google, and in some avenues, is actually worse. When's the last time you got THAT frustrated with the Google search engine? Sure, you might not find what you wanted on occasion, but 99.99% of the time, it fulfills its function exceedingly well. Conversely, we look at a recent failure, this time where Google came out on top.
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