The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.

Only the master of evil, Google!

No, wait, wrong circle. Last time, Google+ was destroying the internet. Now, it’s already dead. Paul Tassi:

It may not be dead, and it’s entirely possible I’m shoveling dirt on something that’s still writhing around, promising me it is in fact the next big thing, but I’m now deaf to its cries. Google Plus is a failure no matter what the numbers may say.

Hard for me to say, really, since I’ve barely been over there in over a month.

Paul ends his Pronouncement of Doom with:

Google just should have known better. No one is going to scrap a social network they’ve spent 8 years building up to start over from scratch for one that offers only a few minor improvements. To compete there needs to be something put forward that’s truly revolutionary, and tech companies half-heartedly copying each other is not going to cut it and can’t masquerade as true innovation.

Yeah, I think that hits the nail on the head. MySpace got annoying, and slow. Facebook hasn’t. The very limited amount of time I spend on social networks is driven not by what I want, but by where the people I want to see are. And until they’re on Google+, I’m not going to care about Google+.

Sorry, just not interested in bucking the trend. Not in this case.

One more thing. As fate would have it, I clicked around at Xkcd.com today, and: