Lessons learned are important. I will miss G+.

Lessons learned are important. I will miss G+.
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Saying goodbye to Google+
A great read...

https://www.embracelife.tech/new-content/2019/3/7/on-the-shoulders-of-google

Facebook had data-sharing arrangements with more than 150 companies , according to a December report in the New York...

Facebook had data-sharing arrangements with more than 150 companies , according to a December report in the New York Times. The deals helped Facebook gain more users, according to the report, and its partners were able to access user data without obtaining consent. Many of the partnerships ended years ago, the Times noted, but the deals with Amazon and Apple were ongoing at the time of the story.
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https://www.ktnv.com/news/national/while-facebook-had-major-outage-report-details-companys-criminal-investigation

I joined LJ back in 2004, and still have my account there.

I joined LJ back in 2004, and still have my account there. I also moved on to Dreamwidth and have my account there. I'd still be active on each if the people I had as contacts were still there. A few are, but there's a limit to how much SocialMedia stuff I do.
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/the-linux-of-social-media-how-livejournal-pioneered-then-lost-web-blogging/

Well I'm and old baby boomer. Maybe this isn't for me. I couldn't make head nor tail of it at breakfast this morning.

Well I'm and old baby boomer. Maybe this isn't for me. I couldn't make head nor tail of it at breakfast this morning.
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http://sv.thegmic.com/mewe-next-generation-social-media-empowered-millennials/

So it's the day after it was announced that G+ will be closing.

So it's the day after it was announced that G+ will be closing. I've joined a group that discusses how to migrate somewhere else, and already there are heaps of posts waiting for me to look at. But so far I'm not sold on anything I've looked at . I've tried diaspora which to me looks like LIVE JOURNAL from 11 years ago. There's something called WeMe but it looks geared towards phone use and I don't put social media on my phone - what with poor eyesight and encroaching arthritis.

The thing that gets to me is this - no matter what solution I pick I will lose some of the connections I've made on G+. That's inevitable because not everyone will go on to the choice I eventually make, if they bother at all. And that annoys the shit out of me. I don't particularly want to be on half a dozen social media platforms.

I started out using Live Journal in 2004 while I was doing a TAFE library course. I stuck with that for a long time. I originally got on Facebook to share a photo I'd taken at a student conference earlier in the year. But I found I couldn't cope with Facebook very well back then, and I'm now on the 3rd FB account. The reason I stayed was mostly because friends I knew from real life and Live Journal . And while I still have a Live Journal account, Facebook effectively killed it by being "the app that everyone was on".

I joined Google+ after a contact in Facebook mentioned they were thinking of moving to it. They didn't, but I liked the feature mix in G+ - communities that worked and were about my interests and past times, and collections which I could share and/or subscribe to. For me G+ has been a platform I can take my time with, one that wasn't really designed for desktops as an afterthought to smart phone usage. I guess as well that my usage of Facebook has been very different than my usage here Facebook is for day-to-day domestic stuff. Google+ has (mostly) been for my interests , passions, and past times.

I will be missing G+, whatever I do afterwards.
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