[Filligree]

> Should Google launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook?

I mean, Google did launch a social network, to hurt their competitor Facebook. It was a whole thing. It was even a really nice system, eventually.

[zaat]

I enjoyed using Google plus more than any other social network, and managed to create new connections and/or have standard, authentic, real conversations with people I didn't know, most of them ordinary people with shared interests that I would probably wouldn't meet otherwise, some of them are people I can't believe I could connect with directly in any other way - newspapers and news sites editors, major SDK developers. And even with Kevin Kelly.

[wanderingstan]

And it turned out that Facebook had quite a moat with network effects. OpenAI doesn’t have such a moat, which may be what Meta is wanting to expose.

[esafak]

Google botched the launch, and they never nurture products after launch anyway. Google+ could have been more successful.