It struck me that the are still people in the world who are pushing the virtues of Google Plus when I received a notification that one of my friends had done something on the virtually abandoned platform (yes, Techies will tell me that there are in fact a few million people using it, blah blah blah).

What really rung home for me was when reading an article in the Economist this morning how many likes and Tweets the article had, and not a single “+1″. Okay, I admit that this may be due to Google Plus lovers not wanting to read about more Facebook hype out of loyalty, but I thought it was a very telling indication:

I think that is a very good sign that Google has failed in the social media space once again.