[SlowRobotAhead]

But that right there is why as a fairly strict free market type, I see the need for government intervention in some tech antitrust situations.

If Google+ failed with google immediately signing anyone with a gmail account up for it and pushing it fairly hard with all their channels - how extremely unlikely is it for someone to organically take Facebook’s market share away?

Oh no problem, you’ll only need someone with more resources than Google!

[zepto]

Google plus didn’t do anything significantly better than Facebook