Google will start deleting photos, comments, pages and more on Google+ from April

By the end of 2018, Google had officially announced that they would close Google+, the social networking platform was once the company's hope but ultimately failed to win Facebook by mistake in its development strategy. as well as the emergence of huge security holes, causing the loss of personal data of millions of users. Google+ has been operating moderately and maintaining the status of "stumbling" in the past few years, so Google's decision to close this platform is not surprising.

In the latest move today, Google has officially announced the specific steps in the process "to put Google+ in the past" on its blog and support page.

Accordingly, starting from February, ie from tomorrow, users will not be able to create new accounts, as well as new pages, communities or events on Google+. And starting on April 2, all accounts and fanpage on Google+ will be officially deleted, of course, with photos, videos and all other content contributed or uploaded by Google+ users.

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In addition, the deletion process will not be completed overnight and Google does not want to do so. Google hopes this process will be possible for several months for users to have prepared options. The company is instructing people how to back up their Google+ data, by following the step-by-step instructions posted on the Google+ portal. Google also said that Google+ community data (Google+ Community) including author information, content and photos for each post in this community will be retained for archival purposes in March.

For other Google+ features, such as Sign-in and comment (comment) Google+ on third-party websites and Blogger, Google said these features will also stop working for several weeks. next. Google+ logon buttons can be replaced with Google login, while Google+ comments (comments) will be removed from Blogger and other sites on February 7 and March 7 respectively (all Comments under Google+ on all sites will be deleted starting April 2).

Not only that, Google will also close all Google+ APIs, in addition to the required Google+ login mentioned above, including requests for Google+ OAuth. The company also recommends that developers begin to switch to alternatives now by following the instructions linked here.

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In fact, Google's original plan was to start deleting Google+ from August 2019, but some problems caused them to be more hesitant, and this also affected the G Suite customers, including businesses, educational institutions and other organizations use this platform. Google said in October last year that it plans to continue investing in Google+, launching new business-built features - including post-censorship tools for administrators, mounting card, post analysis and many other features, but until now, it can be confirmed that it is just a bogus promise.

In addition, it is also reported that Google will close the classic Hangouts, G Suite's multi-platform messaging service in October. However, we will wait for official news from Google.

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