Google Plus was just not as easy to use or as visually appealing as Facebook. I also didn't know as many people who were using it. Probably my favorite updates were from the NASA pictures and Felicia Day (who cracks me up). However, I had been seeing even less and less from those sites in the past year.
Still, copying my daily blogs and posting them to Google Plus (like I do on Facebook) has been part of my daily ritual for nearly five years. Anytime we lose something familiar, there is a bit of emptiness in the space it once took. However, I think I'll get over this loss pretty quickly.