Well folks the days of free social networking are officially over, they once existed here on G+ as a pipe dream but Google have since wisened up to the fact that the value of free users (or "consumers" as they call us) is not worth investing into. If your company is willing to part up with lots of cash every month that's a different story, and if you're a capitalist that's only logical but I thought Google was better than this, clearly I was mistaken.
So +G Suite users enjoy your headings and organised tags and all sorts of new features us "consumers" have been asking for for years, hopefully they make your G+ experience enjoyable for many years to come…
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+Katie the weird/crazy/random person that exists
G+ will be shut diwn
I love Google plus. It's great therapy
+Kenny Waters yeah. Plus you become less disappointed in humanity.
+Katie Gallegos yes…lol
Are they shutting down G + or making it available for monthly fee? I really hope they don't destroy this place. That would be a travesty..Come on Goggle come to your senses already! don't let a good thing die. At least sell to another company for massive profit! (what it's all about anyway) instead of losing all that advertising revenue over a hasty decision..
+rg2027x They're shutting it down for "consumers" meaning us non-paying customer. Google+ is integrated in the G Suite (formerly known as Google Apps) set of apps which include Gmail, Google Drive, Hangouts and other core applications. However that's only available for enterprise so it's not like G+ is suddenly becoming fee-paying for individuals, you have to have an account which is part of an organisation that runs G Suite for their business needs.
Fucked up
Fuck that shit if they enable fees how will the rest of us feel!!!!
+Frost Redstripe see my reply to +rg2027x above
I understand your thoughts about Google and social networks overall, thank you for sharing them.
My question back towards you is what is free? Your Internet access is not, cell phone / computer tablets are not.
Anything worth having is going to take money to operate with any true value.
In Google case that means that as a stand alone unit of Alphabet Corp parent of Google and such this Google Plus must stand on its own, so here is the charges to utilize the service and retain its value.
I am just sharing what I understand is life, I have not once had a free lunch of any value.
Lance Conway.
I reshare animals in need of urgent help. With out google+ they have no chance of help. I know re-sharing animals in need annoy most people on here.. it's so sad
So it appears this G+ was intended for enterprise in the onset, yet established as a "consumer platform" to have us-the general consumer public beta-test it, use daily, kick the tires, suggest features etc…Then once testing-phase completes, bugs conquered and a stable platform is achieved, G+ can now be cancelled in the consumer realm and made available only to corporate enterprise business users–the initially-intended main target function base to begin with. As we were used as expendable chumps for product realization & beta testing the entire time.. Great strategy…LOL!
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+Meera singh
how can I tell if i'm a paying customer?
So are they shutting it down or we just have to pay to keep it on
+Active Atom That's a bit of a loaded question. Sure nothing is free, you pay for the air you breathe with CO2 that plants absorb and return the oxygen you need, and with that "paying" doesn't always involve money. However financially speaking the cost of running G+ is easily subsidised by Google from profits made in other products which are designed to be heavily profitable, like search and AdWords.
I'd argue that as active users we "pay" to use the platform by providing it with activity, that's not something money can buy.
+rg2027x no G+ wasn't intended to be for enterprise from the onset, it was integrated into G suite only a year or two ago.
+Pedro Saabedra if you can't tell, you probably aren't
+Sheryl Beaty see my reply further up the comment stream.
And even if I'm a paying customer, how do I know that Google isn't still taking my user demographic data and selling it to third-party malvertisers in China without my knowledge or compensation?
How do I know that, as a paying customer, I can actually trust Google to keep its word on getting rid of the GoogleUserContent URL malware that's essentially corrupted Google's servers from lack of security enforcement?
How do I know that once we transition over to Suite, that internet security firms (like ESET, Sucuri, McAfee, and Avira) aren't going to blacklist the entire Google lines of products and services for the 2-year data breach that Google intentionally decided not to tell paying customers?
You're asking us to trust someone who can't deliver, refuses to deliver, and won't accept the legal consequences it inflicts on others.
Even Zuckerberg took his beatings from Congress for selling user demographic data to Cambridge Analytica from 2011-2014 without consent or knowledge, and willingly manned up for accepting payment for foreign political ads (a major FEC violation.)
Google wouldn't even show up, after sending a low-level representative to the December 2017 testimony. It refused to accept the European Commission's judgment against the company for anti-trust and privacy protection violations, and won't even explain why it's working with China to suppress political dissent.
I fail to see the "value" of financially supporting such blatant disregard for the values Google claims to uphold. When you're getting paid to do something, and you screw up big time, you tell your customers immediately.
That's what Google tells everyone else, under penalty of scrubbed blacklisting. As a paying customer (revenue from selling my user demographics data from 4 Android smartphones, 5 companies, 3 Youtube channels, 5 Blogs, Drive, Chrome, G+, AdSense, Analytics, Google Books and Play, login authentications, Google Help Forum, and a few more I've likely forgotten), I think it's time Google got held to its own standards.
I'm already a paying customer, even if I'm "free", because of my data being sold without consent or acknowledgment.
Google needs to grow up and get a real job.
+Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith crap
One I ain't paying them two this kind of stuff is happening cause the stupid fcc took the free open Internet and many people across the country is fighting for a free open Internet to be a law now so no can touch our Internet this paying thing for Google + is just the beginning of what is going to happen to our free open Internet
+Nick Moore It's all a matter of trust at this point isn't it? While I believe the whole data breach thing has been way over inflated by the tech media (as usual), there remains the question on whether we can trust Google for anything, specifically to not pull the carpet from under its users every so often.
What Google needs to have a serious lesson on is honest PR and more than donating to charities every now and then.
+ivan braginsky I haven't thought about that but between that and GDPR it's very possible Google just threw the towel altogether
+Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith the data breach might have happened but what the fcc leader did is not cool he's been lying to all of us the 2015 breach never happened neither the one that happened recently yes Facebook has been breach but I'll tell u this that never happened here and never did Google is over reacting and trying to make us pay for something that isn't broken
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+Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith well they should not give up cause if they do the leader of the stupid fcc will be payed billions and they will be out of business they should fight with us to save net neutrality cause if they don't all their precious websites would be owned by TV options
+blah balh we have to work together to keep this site safe and free along with the Internet we are almost close to win net neutrality we are all free to do whatever we want here this could be a fraud
+Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith Well there's the problem right there.
Start asking folks in the tech industry, the ones who miss birthdays and anniversaries while elbows-deep in servers and software.
The stories they tell are more jaw-dropping and mindblowing than the media can share, due to time constraints.
+Nick Moore true but they all did agree to save net neutrality along with all people who want net neutrality saved
Bosses like Pichai and Zuckerberg are paid to tell beautiful lies.
The rest of the industry is paid to manage the ugly truth.
+Mehdi Golzary I can't read this language sorry
+Nick Moore well this ugly truth is affecting us and we need to stop it no matter what of course once we decorupt the government so trump won't have any much power over everyone he's a dictator not a president
+Nick Moore Yes that would be many of my colleagues (lucky for me I don't have quite so many requirements in my role)
Interesting
+Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith that's good
+brent hoffman yep
+Angelina Rivers u know money in our government is the route of all evil
I hop all google collapses over the greed after you kick us peon consumers off g plus. People will stop using your products ALL TOGETHER since using G+ will no longer be an insentive… I already deleted and will no longer use Chrome or any other Google product. I will encourage others to do so. Have fun all you greedy people. Karma is going to catch up with you….
Yet another useless interoffice message board scheme – this yet another thing that will disappear when Google gets bored.
+Mia D with them yes carma will catch up with them I can't already paid for the Internet this week and TV service
+tan staafl exactly it's just a scheme to scare us and make money out of us they are probably getting paid by telecommunication companies to do it so they can get our money this us probably a scheme and to beat a scheme is to stop it and to not listen to their lies
Does anyone know a good alternative to this site with similar format that isn't a Facebook, Myspace or Twitter?
+rg2027x minds.com, best bet by far
+rg2027x nope not that I know off
For those of you who haven't quite understood, "paid customers" refers to G Suite users, which are targeted at enterprise, schools, non profits organisation and similar groups of users.
A school, as an example, could set up a G Suite account, pay every month for a certain number of users and in return pupils would get their own email, google drive and a school-centric social network which runs on top of G+.
What it is NOT, is implementing paid G+ accounts for individuals. G Suite (formerly Google Apps) has been around longer than G+, it only incorporated G+ in its suite of apps a year or two ago.
hopefully this clarifies things
+rg2027x people (not me) have been migrating to pluspora.com but I can't tell you what it's like
+rg2027x it's MeWe and some people from Google plus already shifting there
I love Google +
All about the mighty dollar….Well screw Google