Slowly but surely, the experience I signed up for is going away.
Last week one of my friends sent me a screenshot of her Facebook `On This Day` feed where I was trying to get everyone to leave Facebook for Google+. She had her laugh, and so did I, but I found myself still thinking about it a couple of days later.
Google shutting down its slowly dying social network wasn`t a surprise, and it wasn`t really something that upset me, but remembering the original promise of Google+ left me kind of angry. At its start, Google+ was the continuation of this larger vision the company had for its services, and that entire vision has now completely disappeared.
And I`m probably not going to get over it.
Long before Google+, I got my whole family hooked on Hangouts and Google Reader. Over that year I had just about everyone I knew using both of them, and it was great. When Google Voice came out, my whole family signed up for that as well. This was a Google family, and most of my friends fol...
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