Goodbye Google+

Gone after April 2, 2019: my Google+ Account (like all other consumer accounts)

My “Explore Reno-Tahoe” collection including my favorite black bear snapshot and a picture of Reno's historic post office

My “Recreating Outdoors” collection including links to my posts about the Point Reyes' Kule Loklo Trail and Kehoe Beachside Geology

I have a personal Google+ account, which is going away on April 2, 2019 [1]. This is not an April Fools Day prank. Google+ for “consumers” will be shut down [2].  The reason for the G+ suspension are low user engagement and Google's internal investigation (Project Strobe) resulting in privacy concerns related to the access that third-party developer have on Google and Android products [3-5].

The Google+ Team send me an email with a link to download my Google+ content in archived format, including +1 websites (liked websites) as well as circle and stream data.

To share and keep in memory my Google+ Profile and my collections, I above show selected screenshots.

In addition to posting to Trailing Ahead, I continue publishing on Explore Reno-Tahoe and beyond, Latintos and Axeleratio—and share pictures via Twitter (@travelingahead), Pinterest (TrailingAhead) and Tumblr (Axeleratio). More about me at www.axeleratio.com/axel.

Here, I like to take the opportunity to thank all my readers; those, in particular, who contacted me forwarding comments and supplementary information or inquiring about re-publishing a liked post in a local newsletter. 


Keywords: social networking, Google Plus, Google+ shutdown, G+.

References

[1] My Google+ Home Page “always between borders, bonds and bytes” still available through February and March of 2019: https://plus.google.com/113418081893311820936.
[2] Google+ profile and page suspension. Google+ Help. Link: support.google.com/plus/answer/6320424?hl=en.
[3] Ryan Whitwam: Google+ Will Shut Down in 2019 After Exposing User Data. ExtremeTech, Oct. 8, 2018. Link: www.extremetech.com/internet/278352-google-will-shut-down-in-2019-after-exposing-user-data.
[4] Swapna Krishna: Google is shutting down Google+ following massive data exposure. engadget, Oct 8, 2018. Link: www.engadget.com/2018/10/08/google-shutting-down-google-plus/.
[5] Mike Allton: Goodbye Google+. Google Shuts Down Google+. TheSocialMediaHat.com. Link: www.thesocialmediahat.com/news/google-officially-done-10082018.