Sadly, Google has made an announcement to shut down Google Plus due to massive data exposure.
The news of the data exposure was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, and it was also revealed Google the for social network Google+ for the consumers., There are controversies concerning the reason behind the shutdown. Read the blog to know the reasons for which Google decided to shut down the popular Google+.
There is a software breaking with the confidential data of Google + which led to a considerable amount of consumers amount of consumers' data being disclosed. over 500,000 private profiles., there are other controversies regarding the same.
Before discussing why Google+ was shut down, it is more important to know how popular this social media website was.
How popular was Google Plus?
The number made Google Plus the Google in was nothing more than a failed network. Google Plus had 343 million users. second most popular network after Facebook. Facebook has 700 million users.
So, this can not be considered as the users of Google Plus. "Their numbers are calculated according to how many people use their Google account in the year, "said the Marketing President Scott Stratton on his blog.
As Facebook is the GOD of social networking, customers frequent wonder 'is Google Plus still relevant? '
According to Michel Porter, a homework help provider - "Google Plus is the best place to rank your website without the hassle as this is the most SEO-friendly website. "
Reasons that led to the shutting down of Google +
According to Google, the social networking site has low user engagement. The reasons behind the shutting down of the social network are see below.
According to the BBC news, Google Google Plus failed to live up to the expectations, and a vast customers' data was exposed all through the internet. Plus security bug was first found in March 2018. However, at that time, Google did not reveal the news mostly due to the fear of reputational damage.
Unlike Facebook, Google can not handle the massive data breach. According to reports, Facebook faced a similar security breach some days earlier when 50 million profiles were affected and They deleted 90 million profiles and also alerted the users about such security breaches.
90% of of Google plus. Some complained that the website was difficult to use. users' sessions lasted only for 5 seconds. The usage was indeed miserable.
In a blog posted by Google's CEO, who plays the plus code for many years. It is described that there is no "a vindication of any developer was aware of this bug, or abusing the API, and we found no evidence that any Profile data was misused .
· Google admitted that more than 500K profiles were affected by this bug. It has also been reported that there was no evidence of the data being misused But, to avoid any further massacre, they had to take the decision of closing it down.
· Google will start winding it down over a 10 month's period.
Google Plus remained loyal to many customers criteria whenever any report related clients' privacy was raised.
As more than 500,000 Google Plus accounts are affected, there is no other option but there is no other option but there are hopes that Google will be come up with a new platform that can compete with other social media websites. "We've decided to focus on our enterprise efforts and will be launching new features, purpose-built for businesses," notes the blog post of Google.