{"id":16233,"date":"2019-02-03T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16233"},"modified":"2019-02-03T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T19:47:13","slug":"clarifying-the-confusion-over-the-closing-of-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/clarifying-the-confusion-over-the-closing-of-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarifying the Confusion Over the Closing of\u00a0Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Clarifying the Confusion Over the Closing of\u00a0\u00a0Google+<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>What is\u00a0Google+?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Google+, is a social networking site that was built by Google to compete with Facebook, but never really caught on. It is a feature of\u00a0Google accounts.\u00a0Google says it is closing down Google+ to concentrate on its enterprise (paid) version of it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">The truth is, Google+ was never popular and never had a substantial number of users; It was never the alternate to Facebook that Google thought it would be.\u00a0 In short, it was a failure,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>What does the closing of\u00a0\u00a0Google+ mean to you?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">There seems to be a lot of confusion about the closing of Google+, so we&#8217;re going to try to clear things up. Many of you are worried about this because Google is sending emails to everyone with a Google+ account.\u00a0 The way Google+ was set up, nearly everyone with a Google account automatically got a Google+ account though very few ever used it.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s important that you know that the closing of\u00a0 Google+ will not affect other features of your other Google account like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Google is in the process of shutting down Google+ and by April 2nd all\u00a0Google+ accounts and all data connected with them, will be deleted. If you are a Google+ user, you can use Google Takeout to save your Google+ data should you want to do so. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/wDgX8R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See this article to learn how<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarifying the Confusion Over the Closing of\u00a0\u00a0Google+ What is\u00a0Google+? Google+, is a social networking site that was built by Google to compete with Facebook, but never really caught on. It is a feature of\u00a0Google accounts.\u00a0Google says it is closing down Google+ to concentrate on its enterprise (paid) version of it. The truth is, Google+ was never popular and\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/clarifying-the-confusion-over-the-closing-of-google\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2247],"tags":[363,31,2117,2922,1897],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16234,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16233\/revisions\/16234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}