Shutting down Google+ for consumer (personal) accounts on April 2, 2019
January 30, 2019
In December 2018, we announced our decision to shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019 due to low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers’ expectations. We want to thank you for being part of Google+ and provide next steps, including how to download your photos and other content.
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. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted. You can download and save your content, just make sure to do so before April. Note that photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.
The process of deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts, Google+ Pages, and Album Archive will take a few months, and content may remain through this time. For example, users may still see parts of their Google+ account via activity log and some consumer Google+ content may remain visible to G Suite users until consumer Google+ is deleted.
As early as February 4th, you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities or events. See the full FAQ for more details and updates leading up to the shutdown.
If you’re a Google+ Community owner or moderator, you may download and save your data for your Google+ Community. Starting early March 2019, additional data will be available for download, including author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community. Learn more
If you sign in to sites and apps using the Google+ Sign-in button, these buttons will stop working in the coming weeks but in some cases may be replaced by a Google Sign-in button. You’ll still be able to sign in with your Google Account wherever you see Google Sign-in buttons. Learn more
If you’ve used Google+ for comments on your own or other sites, this feature will be removed from Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All your Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2, 2019. Learn more
If you’re a G Suite customer, Google+ for your G Suite account should remain active. Contact your G Suite administrator for more details. You can also expect a new look and new features soon. Learn more
If you're a developer using Google+ APIs or Google+ Sign-in, click here to see how this will impact you.
From all of us on the Google+ team, thank you for making Google+ such a special place. We are grateful for the talented group of artists, community builders, and thought leaders who made Google+ their home. It would not have been the same without your passion and dedication.
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133
January 30, 2019
In December 2018, we announced our decision to shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019 due to low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers’ expectations. We want to thank you for being part of Google+ and provide next steps, including how to download your photos and other content.
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. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted. You can download and save your content, just make sure to do so before April. Note that photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.
The process of deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts, Google+ Pages, and Album Archive will take a few months, and content may remain through this time. For example, users may still see parts of their Google+ account via activity log and some consumer Google+ content may remain visible to G Suite users until consumer Google+ is deleted.
As early as February 4th, you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities or events. See the full FAQ for more details and updates leading up to the shutdown.
If you’re a Google+ Community owner or moderator, you may download and save your data for your Google+ Community. Starting early March 2019, additional data will be available for download, including author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community. Learn more
If you sign in to sites and apps using the Google+ Sign-in button, these buttons will stop working in the coming weeks but in some cases may be replaced by a Google Sign-in button. You’ll still be able to sign in with your Google Account wherever you see Google Sign-in buttons. Learn more
If you’ve used Google+ for comments on your own or other sites, this feature will be removed from Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All your Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2, 2019. Learn more
If you’re a G Suite customer, Google+ for your G Suite account should remain active. Contact your G Suite administrator for more details. You can also expect a new look and new features soon. Learn more
If you're a developer using Google+ APIs or Google+ Sign-in, click here to see how this will impact you.
From all of us on the Google+ team, thank you for making Google+ such a special place. We are grateful for the talented group of artists, community builders, and thought leaders who made Google+ their home. It would not have been the same without your passion and dedication.
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133
It's not clear to me if the profile will disappear (with the numeric ID). What happens to the data entered in https://aboutme.google.com ?
ReplyDeleteVery disappointed that it looks like Takeout will also fail as of 2-April.
Interesting. "Starting early March 2019, additional data will be available for download, including author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community."
ReplyDeleteAm I reading this correctly? G suite will maintain Google + but personal accounts will be deleted? Why wouldn’t they be all or nothing?
ReplyDeleteAndrew Braun G+ will be continued for G Suite enterprise customers only, with access presumably restricted to the G Suite domain only.
ReplyDeleteI've included my thoughts, including an overview of the timeline, as well as formatted versions of both the announcement and the FAQ at https://plus.google.com/112064652966583500522/posts/UxgSjPxnYxs
ReplyDeleteWant me to also reshare it to G+MM Edward Morbius , even though it also includes the same content as your OP here?
plus.google.com - Google finally provided additional details and dates regarding the shutdown o...
Edward Morbius Note, although the Google blog postings keep referring to "enterprise" features and "enterprise" G Suite users, it is still not clear whether they mean all G Suite users (including legacy free G Suite users, G Suite Education/Non-profit users, G Suite Basic users, and G Suite Business users) or just G Suite Enterprise users. The current G Suite plans comparison document shows Google+ for at least Basic, Business, and Enterprise, but there is no date on the doc, so now way of knowing if that is changing in April or not (https://gsuite.google.com/compare-editions/pdf/G-Suite-Plans-Comparison.pdf).
ReplyDeleteAlso, starting in April they are increasing the prices for G Suite Basic and G Suite Business (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/new-pricing-for-g-suite-basic-and-business-editions).
cloud.google.com - New pricing for G Suite Basic and Business Editions | Google Cloud Blog
The information regarding communities at the very end of the FAQ for G Suite users (https://support.google.com/a/answer/9229693) strongly implies that cross-organization Google+ will continue to work. On the other hand, Circles, Collections, Pages, Events, and vanity URLs are being discontinued.
ReplyDeletesupport.google.com - Important changes to Google+ for G Suite due to the consumer shutdown - G Suite Admin Help
4th February - G+ comments on Blogger are gone.
ReplyDeletePlenty of time for people who anyway aren't and weren't active on G+ to find a fresh solution.
No rush then.
What the..? What’s the alternative? Why can’t they make it better or replace it and usurp our data?
ReplyDeleteAdam Arts The alternatives are off Google+. There is no likelihood Google will change their decision. And any discussion of that point is entirely nonproductive.
ReplyDeleteGet over your grief. Plan to move, or plan to not be online as of 2 April 2019.
The alternatives are the whole reason for this Community to exist. There are extensive references under the Sites & Alternatives classification (see sidebar). More are listed here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/wiki/post_flair?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=plexodus&utm_content=t5_pzti3
And you'll find further discussion at #PlexodusWiki: https://social.antefriguserat.de
In particular, How should I/we choose?:
social.antefriguserat.de - FAQ - PlexodusWiki
I'll focus upon Hubzilla, Mastodon, MeWe, and possibly Pinterest (and also continue in LinkedIn) and perhaps monitor and consider pursuing diaspora, or post from Mastodon into diaspora and Hubzilla and Friendster. So Hubzilla, Mastodon, MeWe, LinkedIn for me mostly, and whatever may remain available in the Google suite as the new subscription based GSuite as it morphs. At my work and at so many companies and agencies, Google, GSuite, Gmail, and the exiting social and emerging social is being adopted to the certain consternation of M$ft. In Mastodon: @Dassinger@Mastodon.technical Don Dassinger B.S., C.I.S, central Phoenix Arizona Hey have a great day, all.
ReplyDeleteGSuite administrator available FT/PT. Anyone may opt to create and use a GSuite subscription and convert from GooglePlus to Google GSuite and keep your contacts, certain communities, groups, photos and gain tools for professional messaging, email, chat, team and business tools. Making sense of it while keeping focus on your mission, you may find good value in having some help managing your GSuite account. I'm in central Phoenix Arizona and am willing to help any groups or individual GSuite users. You can do this. We can do this! Special interests in community gardening, consumer technology, business, science, engineering and adventure technologies and making a part of the world or the whole world a better freer place. Have a tremendous day, week, year, and life! Aloha. Cordially, Don Dassinger, B.S., C.I.S. Also at Pinterest, MeWe, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Google GSuite ***** @dassinger@Mastodon.technical www.facebook.com/don.dassinger.3
ReplyDeleteAdam Arts
ReplyDeleteWhy is a rhetorical question and doesn't matter.
What matters is How to most effectively handle what is.
This post is also important. It's instructions to GSuite users about the consumer shutdown.
ReplyDeletesupport.google.com - Important changes to Google+ for G Suite due to the consumer shutdown - G Suite Admin Help
Its the only place I've seen that mentions the vanity profile URLs and that (some) numeric URLs will survive.