[saraid216]

> After Google+ failed as a social network, despite Google using all their Google-muscle to shove it down everyone's throats, Vic Gundotra claims it's not a social network.

Please give me a date that it failed as a social network, and a listing of "all the Google-muscle" shoving it down everyone's throats prior to that date. If you are correct, surely you can prove it?

> If it was merely a profile-service

I didn't say it was merely a profile-service. Neither did Gundotra. It's an integration package. You keep saying it's a product when it's not a product.

> Google Wave was a massive flop, but it was a flop you didn't have to use. And it didn't affect you.

Your objection to Google+ seems to be that it's successful, rather than it's a failure. The problem is that it's not quarantined away from your notice: that they managed to justify moving to phase two where they started actually using it.

You just don't want it to succeed.