14 DAY TRIAL // Google announced today that it is killing its Google+ social media platform for consumers as soon as April 2nd, 2019, deleting all user accounts and data.
It’s no news that Google is shutting down Google+ earlier that initially planned, as the search giant revealed in December 2018 that it will put an end to its social media platform in April 2019 instead of August 2019) because of a serios privacy issue that it is not willing to fix.
The exact date when Google+ is going away for good wasn’t announced until today, when Google released more detailed information about what will happen with its social media platform until will be shut down on April 2nd, 2019, when all your posts, comments, and photos will be gone forever.
“On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted,” said Google.
You won’t be able to create Google+ profiles, pages, communites or events as of February 4
In today’s update about the Google+ situation, Google also revealed other upcoming milestone that will take effect in the months prior to the April 2 shut down, and the first one kicks off on February 4 when you will no longer be able to create Google+ profiles, pages, communities, nor events.
The next milestone is set for early March, when owners or moderators of a Google+ community will be able to download and save additional data for their community, including photos, author, and body of posts. Other data is now available for download for all users.
In the coming weeks, Google will replace the Google+ Sign-in buttons with Google Sign-in ones, and it will also remove the Google+ comments feature from Blogger as early as Monday, February 4th. The feature will disappear from other platforms by March 7th.
For G Suite users, the Google+ social media platform will remain active and Google says that it should receive a new look and more features in the coming weeks.