Google closes the social network Google+ due to its low use and a recent security breach

Google announced the end of the social network Google+ after discovering a significant security breach and its null success.

Despite the infinite efforts by Alphabet (Google) to make the social network Google+ viable, it has not been popular with users. The company has finally announced that within the initiative called Project Strobe, they close the operations of the social network and all its functions. Among the reasons for the cessation of operations is the discovery of a significant security breach that was discovered last spring in the social network. This gap would have exposed the data of more than half a million users between 2015 and last March 2018.

Alphabet (Google) has decided to shut down Google+ due to a security breach.

The statement reports a bug that was fixed in March 2018 that was fixed as soon as it was discovered by the company. The security and the null interest of the users for the social network on the part of users and developers has ended up being the end of a little or no interesting platform in general.

'While our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into creating Google+ over the years, it has not achieved wide adoption by consumers or developers, and has seen limited user interaction with applications. . '

We must bear in mind that Google has not discovered evidence that certifies that no developer has managed to discover the security breach or the API is abused, which would initially indicate that no user profile has been compromised.

"The consumer version of Google+ currently has little use and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds."

Google has communicated that the closure will not be instantaneous, this social network will remain open until August 2019, which will be when it ends up dying. Before the closing, migration tools will be provided allowing the data to be recovered by the users. At the same time, solutions based on Google+ will continue to be offered for companies and professionals, where it seems that the platform has been well received.

It has also been reported that a new privacy control system implemented by Google will be implemented to grant permissions to applications, which will allow knowing what information is being shared by the different tools, which will depend on the requested permissions.