Google+ Photos To Be Separated From Google+

An anonymous reader writes "Speculation on the eventual shuttering of Google+ has once more risen with news that Google+ Photos will soon be developed and run separately from the social media site. This news follows observations that Google+ "was barely mentioned at Google I/O 2014, while there were 15 sessions dedicated to the service in 2013" and that the company has ended its controversial real name policy. Google Hangouts was also separated from Google+ at the end of July." I've actually heard several people praising Google+ lately; scaling it back to "just a social stream" probably fits into some kind of corollary to Murphy's Law.

Comments

What's the issue?

[mozumder]

They're in the business to find out your interests to sell ads.

Why is that a mysterious thing? This is the job of any media company: to find your weaknesses and manipulate you in order to sell you goods.

I don't understand why people have a problem with that? Sales and marketing is what society has been doing since life was invented. You brush your teeth in the morning to sell yourself to your personal audiences over the people that DON'T brush their teeth in the morning.

Everything that Google does is known and predictable. There is nothing wrong about what they do, and we should encourage them to find out your sales weaknesses in order to extract more money from you via the advertising they sell.

After all, you do the same personal sales and marketing for yourself. Everybody does sales and marketing. It's a fundamental life property, not just for humans, but all species.

We should encourage sales and marketing, over the objection of the libertarian douchebag princesses that are losing the attention-whoring war against professional marketers like Google.

It's always amusing when libertarian princesses cry about losing at attention-whoring.

Re:What's the issue?

[thunderclap]

You are being deliberately obtuse because you don't like that fact that the statement is obviously correct.
So I go broad. You work for a living.
Whether you work for yourself or a company you dress a specific way. While you can say they tell me how to dress for blah blah reason, no they expect you to dress because they are paying you to market themselves and their profit. If you work for yourself, you dress to project an image. That image is "sell yourself to your personal audiences".
Slobs don't make money. People who look like they slept in a dumpster don't make money unless they just finished 39 days on an island trying to win a million bucks.
If you brush your teeth to remove bad breath, you are a] doing it wrong. Thats what mouth wash and breath mints are for (Seriously, how can you be that dense?) b] the true purpose is to keep your teeth white. Guess what? Society judges you on that subtly. If they are, they you will be able to get things you are seeking easier. Thats "selling yourself to your personal audiences."
Everyone is an attention whore. Even if you seek your own attention.