I built a shitty prototype of something similar in 2005 or 2006 for a grad school assignment. I was already seeing problems with facebook: I had my high school friends, undergrad friends, grad school friends, trivia buddies. I actually had two accounts for awhile because you couldn't switch schools yet, but it was a pain to manage.
Facebook was a lot more of a public messaging platform in the early days instead of a sharing/blogging/publishing platform. I don't even know if you could use it that way any more, but group chat has pretty much filled that need. I use hangouts (chat? gmail chat? i don't know what it's called any more) or line/wechat more than any social network these days and have different chats set up for different groups of people.
I think G+ was trying to solve the right problem, but the proliferation of different niche types of networks has solved it in a better way (follow me on Twitter for shit takes, FB for racist news articles, IG for photos, group chat for planning, etc).
Facebook was a lot more of a public messaging platform in the early days instead of a sharing/blogging/publishing platform. I don't even know if you could use it that way any more, but group chat has pretty much filled that need. I use hangouts (chat? gmail chat? i don't know what it's called any more) or line/wechat more than any social network these days and have different chats set up for different groups of people.
I think G+ was trying to solve the right problem, but the proliferation of different niche types of networks has solved it in a better way (follow me on Twitter for shit takes, FB for racist news articles, IG for photos, group chat for planning, etc).