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Ask Slashdot: How Do You Feel About the End Of Google+ ? (slashdot.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the eve-of-destruction dept.

"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+ ?

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  1. Oh God! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who the hell cares?!

    1. Re:Oh God! by Scarletdown · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or more poetically, "Behold the field in which I groweth mine fucks. Set thine gaze upon it and see how barren it lies."

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    2. Re:Oh God! by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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.

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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
    3. Re:Oh God! by NewtonsLaw · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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!

    4. Re:Oh God! by jrumney · · Score: 5, Funny

      Calm down, it is just an April Fool story. Everybody knows that nobody cares about the demise of Google+.

  2. At least they let you download your data by Krishnoid · · Score: 5, Informative

    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?

  3. Re: Oh God! Geocities! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Geocities Japan is ending this month is much more concerning

  4. I don't care about G+... by Ambient+Sheep · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...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...