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Google+ Photos To Shut Down August 1
An anonymous reader writes: Now that Google Photos exists separately from Google+, the company is shutting down the Google+ version of Photos starting on August 1. The Android version will be the first to go, followed shortly thereafter by the iOS and web versions. Fortune calls the old Photos app "a relic of the times when the search giant thought its social network Google Plus could become a huge hit."
thinking the current bulk of users of facebook never heard of a myspace. they are the slow adopters forced into it through the social thing when they got their first ipod to keep up with their kids. parents and grandparents and teachers, they are not technology people, they just followed along and now they are stuck.
the people who are real movers have already left facebook in concept and are on to other social systems entirely.
google+ is the far better alternative to facebook in every way for the few of us who actually know, care, understand. Those few do not make much for a success story.
Some of us don't want Facebook either.
I know this is hard to understand, but for many of us the internet "social network" is just more crap to enable analytics and ads, and hasn't got a damned thing to do with anything we want to do.
I ranked Google+ right up there with if Microsoft decided I needed a Live (or whatever they call it) account to use Notepad ... it was self serving crap by a company trying to force me to use something I didn't want or need.
I like some of Google's services, but I sure as hell didn't want them to overstep their bounds and attempt to force everything I do on the intertubes to go through it. But that's exactly what they did.
It was like digital panhandling. Eventually I blocked plus.google.com at my damned firewall.
It was a marketing experiment gone wrong, and it mostly came across as a shrill bunch of assholes saying "why haven't you used my awesome product". It really pissed people off.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
The problem with Google+ is how the tried (are still trying) to tie it into EVERYTHING.
Back in the dark, dark days when my company was on Google Apps, this was one day turned on, and we had to jump through hoops to turn it off... and then every time I'd log into my personal gmail account (which also had + manually opted-out of), this shit got somehow re-enabled. I had to start using a seperate browser for my personal mail, which really pissed me off, because Opera is the only browser that doesn't fill me with RAGE.
Best of all, its now REQUIRED to post comments on youtube. Fuck that.
BTW, G+ is for Google employees, tumbleweeds, and people who don't know they have a G+ account.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
Or, as I put it, the people who aren't on Google+ are the reason I am on Google+
There is a reason why they are called "Unwashed masses"
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I might have been tempted to get a Google+ account. But their attempt to ram it down my throat put me right off the idea.