@starbreaker I came from the BBS scene to the Internet in 1991. If I were a person to carry grudges, I would need several 40t trucks to get from my desk to lunch ;-).
It is Googles product, so they can fuck it up. That's an universal principle.
I look at G+ and still see the potential. So I do my best to convince other (and Google) to do the same. I will fail with 99.99% certainty. But I still have to try ;-).