[Marc]

So, does anyone actually use Google Plus anymore?

I'm thinking about using it because Google displays a photo of yourself as well as your name on search results of websites that you write for. I think that will increase the clickthrough rate for the website's search results. Those faces are the first results I look at, that's for sure.

I suppose, considering that even having a google account at all technically puts you on Google +. It seems like their approach has turned google plus into the same failure that google buzz faced though. Honestly google buzz was several years too late considering facebook was becoming popular.

Yeah. I think you can deactivate your Google+ account, however, you must have a Google+ account if you're using YouTube. That's the only reason why my Google+ account is still alive. For now, that is.

I think many people have already given up on Google + at this point, or at least many of the people I know have. I could see twitter + instagram taking over before Google +, but I think if facebook shut down there'd probably be a new network altogether that would show up haha.

To be honest, I don't see FaceBook shutting down in 20 years. That is, when Mark Zuckerberg is still running the social network. I wouldn't really call Twitter an alternative to FaceBook. You can't instantly chat with your friends and there's no "webcam time". As for Instagram, I've heard about it, however, I've never really bothered with signing up for an account. Still, although Google+ isn't used as much as FaceBook, it still has many users.

I think it's going to get a lot of webmasters and people who write for websites active on it. Take a look at me for example. I write for a couple of websites and I want that mug of me on Google search result pages, lol. I'm sure the photo will rake in the visitors, even if they're not interested in the content - that's how good things are, mwahaha!! * joking *