minus google plus

We Google + users have recently learned learned that our favorite social media sharing forum is shutting down within the next eight months, due to a past security breach. Google is very good at cutting the cord on their products when they no longer serve their purposes, often leaving users without oxygen. I have read a lot about the forum in the news, the past few days, usually it is mentioned with terms of derision, a failed venture, a virtual ghost town.

I personally loved it.  Many users but intimate enough to get to know people. I developed friendships with people from every culture, from Africa, to Mongolia, France and all points in between. Saw remarkably good and powerful work from people from supposed "primitive" cultures.

And there was remarkably little of the snarky slagging that you see in places like Facebook. People on Google + are much more well mannered. In addition you tended to congregate with an entirely new set of people rather than prior social contacts.  Facebook gets insular and balkanized that way. Google + is more international and wide open. I will really miss it personally. Might be a ghost town but personally I like being at a place where the majority of people ain't.