I ask myself this question every time I check my Gmail and see that little red notification tab. Instead of inciting excitement or curiosity in me like Facebook does, it’s just an annoying little eyesore that I have to click on the make it go away.
And it’s never anything exciting. Example: “Oh look, some people added me to their circles.” That’s all my notifications are, because, just like me, all my friends are doing are adding other people and then sitting and staring at their blank profiles.
My problem with Google+ is that there was way too much time between the day it came out in beta and the day it came out for everyone. By the time it was available to everyone, the hype about Google+ had more than died down.
Google+ is just there now. Why go through the trouble of adding people to new circles when all my friends are already on Facebook? Plus, Facebook has already caught on, starting to offer its own version of “circles.”
Sometimes when Facebook makes another annoying change, one of my friends will mention switching to Google+, and I just laugh, It’s going to take a huge Facebook change that really pisses people off to get them to actually make the jump to Google+ — but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.