I recently received a notification saying that my Google+ profile will be deleted by April 2nd. I found a more detailed explanation here.
I would just like to know will that affect my gmail and YouTube account somehow? Just curious. Thank you in advance.
Logically, it will not.
To confirm:
Right now, they couldn’t kill gmail without basically committing suicide.
I much preferred the way it worked to facebook, whose interface and navigation metaphor and lack of guest logins makes me consider it to be a piece of feculent sludge. Unfortunately, the fact that it gained traction overrides all such considerations for a social media site. thus, I put up with it along with everybody else.
Right. Functionally it was much better than Facebook, which got its traction just because it came first.
With Google+, you could control what was seen with much more flexibility–like having different accounts for different purposes, which required some thought process.
Facebook, on the other, catered to simple-mindedness, and it became the standard.
They required you to have a Google Plus account in order to comment on YouTube. If you no longer have a Plus account, how will commenting be controlled?
They claim:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2663685?hl=en
Note that one of those bullet items is “Commenting with outdated versions of the YouTube mobile app”. It appears they had to tweak it a bit to decouple it from Google+. Also “Channel art and channel icon editing on mobile”.
You might want to check if you have a Google Apps For Education account, GAFE, since G+ is not shutting down over here for GAFE users. The last number I have is that roughly half of US K-12 use GAFE, so that is quite a lot of students and staff that are not affected.
Betamax vs VHS.
Shutting down G+ is mostly just a formality, since even without it, they’re still the largest social media company in the world, by a long measure.