Goodbye, Google+: A eulogy for the last great social network


Goodbye, Google+: A eulogy for the last great social network

(Read my column: https://goo.gl/VpmzYS)

Here's my long-promised eulogy for Google+, where I argue that Google+ really started dying in 2014.

I hope you agree with everything I wrote here, and would love to hear your thoughts on it in the comments.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90252543/goodbye-google-a-eulogy-for-the-last-great-social-network

(Pic props to Thomas Hawk)

#google+

Comments

  1. Carole MercédèsOctober 20, 2018 at 1:01 PM

    Best review I've read so far....
    What will happen to my beloved Friends+Me ?

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  2. Friends+MeOctober 20, 2018 at 1:04 PM

    Carole Mercédès oh :) we we’ll move on and add cross-promotion from Facebook, LinkedIn and add support for Diaspora*

    Sad to see Google+ go nevertheless.

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  3. Carole MercédèsOctober 20, 2018 at 1:10 PM

    Friends+Me yes it is a dream that was really for too short before the murder started...

    ReplyDelete
  4. Friends+MeOctober 20, 2018 at 1:11 PM

    Carole Mercédès I am afraid so.

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  5. Carole MercédèsOctober 20, 2018 at 1:12 PM

    Friends+Me nice to hear that you keep going and adjusting!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Friends+MeOctober 20, 2018 at 1:13 PM

    Carole Mercédès that’s life :) and how are you?

    ReplyDelete
  7. Carole MercédèsOctober 20, 2018 at 1:16 PM

    I'm good... shocked to lose one of my favorite places... even if just a virtual one... thankful for all the great connections i made and wondering how many of them will endure all that and what will part.

    Guess the circle of life... ;)

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  8. Friends+MeOctober 20, 2018 at 1:20 PM

    Carole Mercédès I’ll do all in my power to help G+ users and entire communities to transition to a new place, diaspora (https://pluspora.com looks nice).

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  9. Carole MercédèsOctober 20, 2018 at 1:35 PM

    I liked at it... seems a bit like a programmer getto. Plane - ugly - closed

    ReplyDelete
  10. Friends+MeOctober 20, 2018 at 1:38 PM

    Carole Mercédès it will change with the upcoming migration of plussers. They will bring the G+ culture and things will change. We even plan to improve the UI to make it more G+ like.

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  11. Carole MercédèsOctober 20, 2018 at 1:39 PM

    Oh really... change the UI - now you got my attention.... ;) because now it's not much....

    ReplyDelete
  12. Friends+MeOctober 20, 2018 at 1:40 PM

    Carole Mercédès right :)

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  13. David SchmidtOctober 22, 2018 at 7:08 AM

    Will Friends+Me still work for G Suite G+ers? There wasn't a close down of the API announced, was it?

    ReplyDelete
  14. Friends+MeDecember 12, 2018 at 2:49 PM

    David Schmidt we still don’t know. The Google blog post is all we have.

    ReplyDelete

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