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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+ ?
Geocities Japan is ending this month is much more concerning
Google had a social network called Orcut, after an engineer there who was named Orcut and is still trying his hand at social networking. That was Google's social network before Google+. It played well in South America, I think, but didn't catch on as much elsewhere. I don't remember how it finally played out. We just have to wait a while, and Google will do it's third social network.
Bruce Perens.
I work in academia, and Google+ is continuing on, zombie-like, there as part of G Suite for Education. It’s the worst of both worlds - a small user base means Google will pay absolutely no attention to it, but when I go to delete my G+ account I get dire warnings regarding all sorts of data being deleted from other places as well.
#DeleteChrome
At the time, Facebook was making a lot of money, and winning a lot of advertiser interest, because they had the age and gender of their users. That is something advertisers care a lot about.
So what did Google do? Created a clone of Facebook, got everyone's age and gender (and real name), harassed people until they gave up their information, then dropped it.
Google+ was a data harvesting operation, nothing more.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
The other day I was going to post a somewhat smutty joke to a youtube video, and noticed it was signed in with one of my work emails. So I changed the user in youtube and it changed *all* gmail tabs to that user.
It's millennials. They can't design shit.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I started posting on G+ on July 3rd 2011 and stopped on January 19th 2019. That is 2757 days.
In that time I posted 2747 posts (not counting private posts) which received 17494 +1, 10357 comments and 2469 reshares.
As all good things tend to, this too had to end. In this case it is not entirely voluntary but Google was forcing my hands. I do not stay at pubs till the innkeeper throws me out, so I was leaving there too at a time of my choosing.
This would usually also be the place where I would thank Google for giving us the opportunity of this social media. But currently my feelings are rather "f*ck you" for how the closure is handled. They burnt more trust than most companies ever get from me in a lifetime. I do not appreciate getting lied to and shunned. As mentioned elsewhere, one of my plans in 2019 is to move every possible service of mine away from Google.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack threads on fire off the shoulder of Brexit. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Gamer Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to quit.
I won't be relieved until it's actually gone -- and even then, only if they don't break too much stuff in the process.
God knows how many people will find themselves locked out of their YouTube or GMail accounts if Google stuffs this up (as they so often do).
Every time they "fix" one thing they end up breaking a dozen other things. The Google ecosystem is a mess due to the number of bits they've killed off.
I fear the 2nd!
...but I'm extremely pissed off about the forthcoming death of Hangouts.
Once upon a time we has MSN Messenger, Yahoo Instant Messenger, Google Talk/Chat/Voice to name but three. Now all gone (or about to go).
Surely somebody can supply a text and occasional voice/video chat program that will work on Windows, Linux, iOS & Android? In a world this big is that too much to ask? Apparently so, unless someone can tell me better...