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Why did Google stop Google+?

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A few liked it a lot. Most never used it.
I think the bottom line was that it wasn't scraping enough extra information about Google account holders to be worth the effort.

Google+ is still for workers and other company's but not the customers like us and I don't know why Google has it still going for the workers and others company's but not customers.
 
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There was very little take up and some reputational risk (though they'd already announced that they were closing it when the data leak mentioned above happened - that may have accelerated it though).

Anyway it's gone. Google do this to a lot of products. It's really not worth getting too invested in any new thing they introduce.
 
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Google do this to a lot of products. It's really not worth getting too invested in any new thing they introduce.
Agreed. When they inevitably launch their next great social networking service I will not be getting nearly as invested as I did in Google+. It was naive of me to put so much into a free Google service and losing it really burned me.
 
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In the Oatmeal comics, I read about the evolution of G+ over fb, I was really heavy for it to talk with mostly my sister on and off, and my other friends,
have online too, but as time changes, I can still share my photos with her though any time, I really feel like it though. ontop of the fatal tasks of chatting, it just got so weird not able to edit like on forums, because sometimes you have to fib.
 
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In the Oatmeal comics, I read about the evolution of G+ over fb, I was really heavy for it to talk with mostly my sister on and off, and my other friends,
have online too, but as time changes, I can still share my photos with her though any time, I really feel like it though. ontop of the fatal tasks of chatting, it just got so weird not able to edit like on forums, because sometimes you have to fib.


What I said.
 
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