Google is pulling the plug on its last big attempt to go head-to-head with Facebook in the social media space. The company had already announced that Google+ would shut down in April. Now the company is telling us what happens between now and then. Long story short: if you’ve been using Google+ you’re going to […]
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Google Plus is shutting down earlier than planned
You know how Google was planning to shut down its social network next year because apparently Google+ is a buggy mess riddle with security vulnerabilities that the company can’t be bothered to fix because not enough people actually use it anyway? Yeah, apparently Google found another security vulnerability recently. And while it’s been patched up, […]
Google+ is shutting down in August, 2019 (because nobody used it and it wasn’t all that secure)
Google has announced plans to shut down its social network. When Google+ first launched in 2011, the company focused on features like “Circles,” which gave users more control over who they shared updates with than rivals like Facebook and Twitter, and “Hangouts,” which allowed for text and video chatting. But while Google+ developed some loyal […]
Revamped Google+ is focused on communities, collections
It’s been more than four years since Google launched Google+ as a social network… and while the site has certainly attracted some loyal users, it’s never quite reached the same kind of ubiquity as Facebook and Twitter. Recently Google has started streamlining the service, first by unbundling features such as Google Photos and YouTube from Google+ and now […]