So I've been thinking since the relaunch... the site is pretty fricking great to use. It wasn't bad before but it is so much smoother now.
I log onto Facebook every other day to check notifications and goddamn is it just a fricking horrible site. I mean it wasn't always so bad, what happened? And while I was excited for timeline at first, it's definitely style over substance. Finding old posts on your profile is such a fricking chore now. Google+ took the best feature of the new profiles (cover photos) and created a much better profile experience with them.
I get the complaint that Google+ doesn't have "any of your friends." Few of my IRL friends use it, but a couple do and them combined with the pages/people I follow (one-way) make it worth it for me. However what I don't get is bashing the service itself. It's a great service, and although the new Twitter is better than the prior version I still think of the three Google+ is hands-down the best experience.
Not to mention photos, which in itself is probably the best photo hosting site out there. In any terms. Available storage, available bandwidth, quality preservation, video player, lightbox, community, editing (has a full featured editor right there), etc. And instant upload for the Android app is just a remarkable timesaver. Can't speak higher of the photo experience. If the Facebook-killing aspect of Google+ never catches on, they could easily retool it into the #1 photo site online overnight.