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I just added it to the main post in order to help shape the conversation. I have no desire to lead a social media company.

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Isn't that idea the same idea that google tried and failed at?

Google failing implies nothing about the tribal conceptualization of social networking.

> implies nothing

Nothing is a strong word.

A similar idea was tried, by one of the largest tech companies in the world, pushing it on to their already established user base, and it didn't catch on. Will it fail again? No idea, but it doesn't imply nothing.

I stand by my statement.

One might argue correlation, but any argument about causation is devoid of logic.

G+ actually worked, it just didn't hit as big as Google would have liked. I used it mostly every day for a while and was sad when it disappeared. So I guess you could say it "failed" for one set of criteria, but may not "fail" if the criteria is a little less demanding.

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