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The hay-days of Google+ are over

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Google+ Announced its Shut Down After a Software Glitch exposed Info of 500k Accounts Google Plus, an Internet-based Social Network owned and operated by Google was launched in June 2011. This social media platform experienced a l ot of fanfare in its initial years  and posed as a possible competitor to Facebook. The  service had over 10 million users  just two weeks after its launch. Now, the world has been taken aback by Google’s out of the blue announcement of  Google+ closure . According to the announcement made Google, Google+ would be  fully shut down by August 2019, to allow users to download and migrate their information. What differentiates Google+ from its counterparts? Google+  was created to serve as a  social spine for Google’s disparate services  like Adwords, Youtube etc. Each service provided by Google had access to the features implemented in Google+ refraining the tech giant from implementing the same social features indep...