According to online sources, Google has begun the process of shutting down its social network, which involves deleting all user accounts. This means that the developer has abandoned attempts to compete with Facebook, Twitter, and others.
The Google+ social network had relatively low popularity among users. There were also several significant data breaches, resulting in the information of tens of millions of platform users potentially falling into the hands of third parties. Due to the first breach, the details of which were kept secret for several months, the decision was made to shut down Google+. The second data breach prompted developers to accelerate this process. Initially, the plan was to close the social network in August of this year, but it has now been announced that this will happen in April.
The company acknowledged that the Google+ platform did not meet expectations in terms of user growth. Google representatives state that the efforts and lengthy development did not help the social network gain popularity among users. It is worth noting that despite its modest audience, Google+ represented a community of loyal users who continued to use the project regularly for many years.
The exact date for stopping all services of the social network has not been specified. User accounts are being gradually disabled and data is being deleted. The work to close Google+ is expected to be fully completed by the end of this month.
Source: 3dnews.ru
