We use Google+ as our company's internal social network. This is helpful because it maintains separation between personal social media and professional. Communities can be a great way to organise social event or share common knowledge.

Circles let you differentiate the content you share with work friends and wider colleagues.

I have absolutely no interest in using G+ for my personal life but it's a very handy tool for internal communication in an organisation.

I use Google+ and my stream is always busy and interesting. G+ is just different than Facebook or Twitter. It is more of a social network for interests than for connecting with friends and family.

I think Google+ was ahead if its time.

I, for myself can see a gradual move from Facebook to Whatsapp. That's because everybody uses Whatsapp (at least in Germany), thus making it available just as Facebook was/is. However, by creating groups in Whatsapp you have something like a private Facebook where you can share data with the people you choose. Very simple. I can't remember the last time I posted something on Facebook, but while I wrote this post I shared something in two Whatsapp groups.

G+ is in my opinion the a very good solution (circles are like whatsapp groups for your friends), but it didn't make. I think that's mainly because of the way you gained access to the product. For G+ you need the large, and untransparent Google account, whereas whatsapp needs just a phone number.

G+ is underrated. Would be the best social network now (technically) if it was run as stand alone entity without googles name attached.

This piece only looks at Google+ posts, it fails to take into consideration other features, such as Hangouts. I haven't posted an update on Google+ in years (except for changing my profile photo recently), but I use Hangouts almost every day.

I didn't even realise Hangouts was coupled to G+ until I read your comment. Now I realise I've been implicitly ignoring it every time I've had a hangout.

Poor Google Plus.

To be honest I hate the style of Google+.