Google+ known renownedly as Google Plus was launched by Google in June 2011 as a internet based social media platform like Facebook and twitter which was extraordinarily designed to link google’s products. Though this product was a great success in the beginning and saw a large number of users switching from Facebook/Twitter to this social platform. But in a setback, Google announced to withdraw this product from the market and would delete the website over the next few months. The expected date for its shutdown is 2nd April, 2019 and the website would be deleted by August, 2019.
First Google will delete the content which includes photos, videos and posts of the users, but before that that Google would Bar the New users to create new profiles and pages or any type of communities.
What is the Reason behind the shutdown of Google+ ?
Anybody could be in shock after this News headline that Being the Tech giant of the world, Why Google decided to shutdown Google+? In October last year, Google announced the shutting down as its engineers found the APIs to be highly challenging to develop and then maintaining it. When we are dealing with software technology, we cannot avert the encounter of “Bug”. It doesn’t matter how good your engineers are, Bugs always find their ways and interrupt the whole operation and also bring down the reputation of the brand. Google itself is a world of internet working with the best software engineers and designers. There was another security breach in December Last year, due to which 52.3 Million Google+ accounts were affected.
What is Google+ API?
The main reason of Google+ shutdown is the inability of the engineers to cope with the difficulties of API. So let’s know what is API in Google+. Google API is the programming interface to Google+. API can be used to integrate your APP or any website with Google+ so that the enable users can connect with each other for maximum engagement using the features of Google+ from within your App or website.
After the shutdown announcement, Users are baffled over their content which is going to be deleted by June this year. Google has given ample time to the users to save their Content. Here’s the steps to download all your Data on the Google+:
- Open your Google account.
- Go to Download data page
- Ensure that “ All Data” option is pre-selected – You can also choose any specific data
- You can choose your File type
- Now select the download format which suits you the best
- After you choose the download format, Choose to create “ Archive”
What about G Suite Users?
Before we get to know what will happen to the G Suite users, Let’s have a quick glance at G Suite. G Suite is Brand product of Cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools developed by the tech giant Google. G Suite includes Gmail, Hangout, Calendar and Google+ for communication and Google docs for storage. This service is mainly used by the entrepreneurs/Business class people for office work. There is a relief for these people that Google+ is not shutting down for enterprise users. Google will continue to support this feature.
