A nice post about a really well built social community that got lost because most social media users crave Likes/attention.
I can tell you that all your points are good points and I don’t have a BUT neither :)
Facebook, insta and Whatsapp make it way too easy for people to use their platforms.
Most people take the easiest root and all their friends are there too.
For 5 years I’m trying to get people to stop using Whatsapp and step over to Signal. Everyone tells me, that they don’t know anyone on Signal. The same goes for G+
On G+ I had like 20,000 followers on
just one type of collection of photos. The people followed it because they where interested in the subject.
Facebook connects people and people are nosy, they want attention and want to see what others are doing. G+ didn’t have that.