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Google+ Reveals Shutdown Timeline For Consumers (androidpolice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Police: Google announced its plans to sunset its Google+ social media network for consumers on a sour note in October. The platform, which has a small but dedicated user-base, decided to shut down following Google's acknowledgement of a data exposure that affected up to 500,000 Google+ profiles. Shortly after, in December, the shutdown timeline was expedited due to another, larger bug that had the potential to reveal private user information and impacted approximately 52.5 million users. Now, the company has detailed its shutdown timeline for the consumer version of Google+ -- and it's not wasting any time.
The shutdown timeline is as follows:
- As early as February 4th, you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities, or events.
- The Google+ feature for website comments will be removed by Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2nd.
- Google+ sign-in buttons will stop working in the coming weeks, but in some cases will be replaced by a Google sign-in button.
- Google+ Community owners and moderators who are downloading data from their Community will gain additional data for download starting early March 2019. That includes author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community.
-On April 2nd, all Google+ accounts and pages will be shut down and Google will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts. Photos and videos from Google+ in users' Album Archive and Google+ pages will also be deleted. Photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.
The shutdown timeline is as follows:
- As early as February 4th, you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities, or events.
- The Google+ feature for website comments will be removed by Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2nd.
- Google+ sign-in buttons will stop working in the coming weeks, but in some cases will be replaced by a Google sign-in button.
- Google+ Community owners and moderators who are downloading data from their Community will gain additional data for download starting early March 2019. That includes author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community.
-On April 2nd, all Google+ accounts and pages will be shut down and Google will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts. Photos and videos from Google+ in users' Album Archive and Google+ pages will also be deleted. Photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.
How about think before you post? Chrome is a good browser, while it has some issues, it is better than most (firefox was great). But don't say stupid crap.
FaceBook (as much as they suck) won that round
So hidden in that note is a comment that Google+ will apparently be continuing for G Suite customers - and "new features are coming".
I was really hoping that Google+ was really going away and that we could get our department's YouTube channel disconnected from the damn Google+ account we were basically coerced by Google into creating in the first place. But no... we're apparently stuck with this pointless account which almost no one actually wants. AND we've seen just how much attention Google pays to Google+ security!
Thanks Google!
#DeleteChrome
There's one other name you might know me by ... Google+
Who?
Google+, man. Legendary social media platform? ... Forget it.
But don't say stupid crap.
You must be new to the internet.
It is unbelievable how many people just don't realize what they lose when they depend on one particular company for their communication. I would have thought that the 100+ years of telephony service experience has taught the people that lesson, but no, they make the same mistake time and again. And it's not like there is no alternative - NNTP and IRC have been available for decades.
I don't -believe- I have a Google+ account but I do have gmail. I'm going to back up my account there just in case they -miss-.
Google has a long, long history of starting services, letting them run for a while, and then killing them off. For example:
Google Video
Helpouts by Google
SearchMash
Google Reader
Dodgeball
Google Deskbar
Google Answers
Google Browser Sync
Picasa Hello
Google Lively
Google Page Creator
Google Catalogs
Google Wave
Google Nexus One
Goog 411
Google Health
Google PowerMeter
IGoogle
Postini
Google Gears
Google Labs and hosts of related projects
Google Bookmarks Lists
Google Friend Connect
Google Gears
Google Search Timeline
Knol
Google Authorship
Google Desktop
Fast Flip
Google Maps API for Flash
Google Pack
Google Web Security
Image Labeler
Notebook
Orkut
Sidewiki
Subscribed Links
Code Search
Jaiku
I'm sure there are others that aren't on the list.
Keep in mind that many of these were created solely to harvest user data.
Take GOOG-411 for example- the service was provided for free with no ads or any other revenue source because Google only wanted callers for their phonemes. The service was designed as a way to anonymously collect vocal samples from a large sample of North American callers in order to better train their speech recognition tools.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Google has the worst case of corporate ADD that I've ever seen. You should not use any Google products for "mission critical" applications.
Those that do, need to have their heads examined.
"decided to shut down following Google's acknowledgement of a data exposure that affected up to 500,000 Google+ profiles."
This can't be the reason, mainly because this will be the recognition of its own incompetence. If Google is incompetent to maintain a product, why Google will sell services?
One more milestone they forgot to mention
On April 1 it will be widely reported that Google has cancelled the shutdown of Google+ and is instead relaunching the service with features merged in from Google Reader, Google Wave, Google Buzz, Google Inbox and Picasa.
Chrome is spyware not a browser.
numbnuts
All Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2nd.
So if you commented on Slashdot using Google sign-in, does that mean you comments will be deleted or changed to AC comments?
G+ is shutting down?! OMG!! What am I going to do with my life now?
Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
D*mn*d thing has been cluttering my old phone (along with a host of other Google cr*p that I never ever used) since I bought it. I could really use the space back.
It would not have changed the failure of Google+, but please:
Don't ever include a symbol as part of a consumer product name!
How does (or did) someone get to Google+? www.googleplus.com, www.google+.com (is the + character even accetpable in a domain name?), www.google-plus.com, plus.google.com???
I actually think Google+ would have been better for users than Facebook. But I now avoid all social networking websites as much as I possibly can. Kind of like how I avoid crack cocaine, opioids, cutting into myself, and setting myself on fire. All very bad things to do.
Of course, I did know that. I read Slashdot. But I haven't heard a single word from Google about it. Not an email, not a notification, nothing. If it were up to them, I'd have no idea. I bet a lot of G+ users still don't know it's shutting down. Can't Google bother to even tell its users when it's going to shut down a service they use?
"I'm too busy to research this and form an educated opinion, but I do have time to tell everyone my uninformed opinion."
I never saw anything on google plus I cared about. The only google+ content I used, was that USB guy at google who tests for out of compliance USB C cables that could catch things on fire, etc.
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