PLOT 004 / SOCIAL
Google+
2011–2019
Confirmed discontinued
Your circles grew quiet.
One flower per grave, per visitor, per UTC day. A gesture, never a transaction.
01 / A FORMER LIFE
There was a place.
Google+ arranged a social life into circles. Friends, colleagues, enthusiasts, and strangers could belong to different rooms. Inside those rooms, people shared photographs, argued about hobbies, and built small communities.
The consumer network is remembered for its Circles model and the communities people made within it. A service can struggle at scale and still matter enormously to the people who found their corner there.
Original address: https://plus.google.com
This historical address may now redirect or belong to another service.02 / THE DEATH RECORD
Then came the ending.
Google accelerated the consumer shutdown following a software bug affecting profile data access. The company had already announced plans to sunset the consumer service.
This memorial covers consumer Google+, not Google Accounts or other Google products. Enterprise successors followed their own timelines.
THE SMALL THINGS THAT REMAIN
Leave a little of yourself.
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The visitors’ book is quiet. Your memory could be the first.