VIDEO: Google+ to get a complete overhaul

Google+ hasn’t lived up to its full potential as a social network developed and promoted by Google, one of the world’s largest and most innovative organisations.

On Tuesday, it began the rollout of a completely redesigned Google+, one that will focus on the Communities and Collections functions of the platform, according to a blog post by Google’s streams director Eddie Kessler.

Kessler said in the blog post that Google has been "listening to what people using Google+ had to say," and concluded that Communities, which allows users to join groups that discuss hobbies or passion areas, and Collections, which sees users compile posts on areas of interest like health and photography, were the two most engaging functions on the platform.