Google+ will continue for a while, but it'll likely end up in neglect and disrepair like Blogger, Reader, and every bridge in America. Parts of the platform will live on in various Google services.

Enge analyzed more than 500,000 randomly selected Google+ profiles. Since a Google profile is created automatically when people sign up with Google, it was no surprise to find that 90% of the ...

Google+ is shutting down at last. Google announced today it’s sunsetting its consumer-facing social network due to lack of user and developer adoption, low usage and engagement. Oh, and a data ...

Unlike Google+, Facebook is not designed around the group dynamic, but users can make public or private groups, with the option to allow all members to invite other people into the fold. It’s ...

Google+ is undoubtedly an important channel for both individuals and organizations of all sizes to be active on, since it’s the social backbone of all of Google’s properties from Gmail to search.

Google+ is integrated into the navigation bar at the top of almost all Google products (not including Blogger and YouTube). That way you can always keep tabs on the latest notifications from Google+.

And sure, even at Google+'s current growth rate, it will take some time for it to catch up with Facebook. On the other hand, for all its popularity, a lot of people don't like Facebook.

The Google+ team set out to fix this by thinking about neighbors sitting out on porches. If your neighbor is sitting there, you know that they’ll likely be interested in striking up a conversation.

Google+, on the flip side, “sports a clean, well-designed user interface that arguably offers greater privacy protections than Facebook,” writes Declan McCullaugh at Cnet.

Google+ is available on a limited, invite-only beta for the moment, so you'll have to sign up and wait your turn. Quite how long it will stay like this is anybody's guess - it's currently being ...