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Ask Slashdot: How Do You Feel About the End Of Google+ ? (slashdot.org)
"On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts," Google has been warning since January.
Long-time Slashdot reader shanen writes "it's been grating on me for a while," asking "But is there any real harm here? Do you feel damaged?" On the one hand, my trust in the Google has certainly been damaged by profit-driven directional changes. On such grounds you could argue that the people who most trusted the Google may feel most victimized....
What is the value of IP? Do you feel you expressed or even created any interesting ideas through your use of Google+ as a discussion channel? If so, maybe you feel damaged because it's going away? (Yes, the Archive team wants to preserve it, but IP has to grow to be alive, and the archives aren't easy to search, to boot...)
I'm pretty sure that I started using Google+ a long time ago, back when my own sentiments towards the Google were much more positive. My negative framing of the question could be projection, so maybe your response may explain why it's really a good thing when the Google kills certain ideas?
The original submission also includes the bitter observation that "Innovation is supposed to be important to the Google. Isn't the Google giving us mixed signals here?" But how do Slashdot's readers feel?
Leave your own thoughts in the comments. How do you feel about the end of Google+ ?
Long-time Slashdot reader shanen writes "it's been grating on me for a while," asking "But is there any real harm here? Do you feel damaged?" On the one hand, my trust in the Google has certainly been damaged by profit-driven directional changes. On such grounds you could argue that the people who most trusted the Google may feel most victimized....
What is the value of IP? Do you feel you expressed or even created any interesting ideas through your use of Google+ as a discussion channel? If so, maybe you feel damaged because it's going away? (Yes, the Archive team wants to preserve it, but IP has to grow to be alive, and the archives aren't easy to search, to boot...)
I'm pretty sure that I started using Google+ a long time ago, back when my own sentiments towards the Google were much more positive. My negative framing of the question could be projection, so maybe your response may explain why it's really a good thing when the Google kills certain ideas?
The original submission also includes the bitter observation that "Innovation is supposed to be important to the Google. Isn't the Google giving us mixed signals here?" But how do Slashdot's readers feel?
Leave your own thoughts in the comments. How do you feel about the end of Google+ ?
You can use Google Takeout to download your data and rehost it elsewhere for any of their services. Do other major players make it convenient/possible to do that?
Google+ had all kinds of growing pains, typically involving the addition unnecessary whitespace. Plus tagging often worked very poorly, with everyone but the person you were trying to tag coming up in the list, and with it sorting and re-sorting itself under your mouse pointer (or finger) when you finally found them. But recently, they got everything working nicely, including translation. Therefore, it's sad to see it go, as it was the easiest social network to use with an international community.
G+ never had many users, so this will not cause a lot of harm. I went to Pluspora so as to have an alternative to Facebook for things I actually want to post publicly. (If I cared whether people actually read what I said, I'd post somewhere other than either. More people probably read me here, for example.) But Google isn't actually killing it, they're just making it a feature only in their business office product. Perhaps they got tired of patrolling it for porn.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The indie tabletop RPG scene really adopted Google+. Why? Damned if I know, but they've been struggling to find an alternative since the announcement was made that it was going away.
G+ never had many users, so this will not cause a lot of harm.
The only reason I even have a G+ account at all was due to the time they were forcing accounts on youtube.
At the time they initially claimed it was just for the comment sections, so I ignored it since I don't comment.
But for a short time they had some aggressive popup notices and wording that implied you would lose your subscriptions and custom saved playlists if you didn't upgrade.
So yes G+ didn't have a lot of users, but it certainly had a whole lot of accounts made on threat of losing access to other services.
I would only describe this as mildly annoying, but it seemed at the time that quite a number of people resented the forced signups.
Even at only "mildly annoying", with not a single good thought about G+, that still ultimately sums up to a negative.