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One aspect of the google plus thing was that google liked to link it to peoples other google services.

Some people had their google+ accounts suspended for reasons such as "google is not sure that you are using your real name" or an unspecified terms of service violation and got their gmail accounts locked as well.

For many people, loosing access to their gmail is really bad. Suddenly it's a huge hassle to get their car insurance policy pdf or email their landlord.

For many people, it was not worth the risk of loosing access to their main email address.

Good point. The "real name" policy - in combination with the tie-ins into the rest of the "Googlesphere" was bad news for many.-

Google really is a one trick pony.

Advertising is all they really do. Their software or other products are ancillary and supportive to their advertising objectives --- and obviously subject to being discontinued on a whim.

Google is now a marketing analítics company with an advertising business and vestigial search engine services.-

The irony of posting that on threads.

Thought the same.-

Google+ was a thing for many people, and it was beginning to gain some serious traction. A shame, really.-