Google+ Is Dead

I haven't even looked at my Google+ page in a while. When I just went, I saw nothing but blog posts from my own blog and a few others. It looks like news organizations are the only ones still using the service. Google+ has some great features, but creating a brand new social networking site is apparently more difficult than it seems. For potential users, it's like starting a new save file in a video game after playing for hours on end, there's just too much to leave behind. Despite the fact that I liked it, I'm not going to lament its passing. After all, while Google did do more to protect user privacy against other users, they still use user data as a product. The old saying regarding private data: "if you're not the customer, you're the product" was pretty much made for Google and Facebook. 

So, should we mourn the eventual death of Google+? Not really. Especially since Google's new privacy policy was designed to allow them more access to your private data across services. Google's not going to give up on their social network, but it's quite obvious that users have.