With Google+ Photos shutting down, and Google Photos taking
over, Google made another major announcement about its social network, Google+.
Google announced that your Google profile will no longer be your identity in
all its products. Up until now, Google made it compulsory to have a Google+
account to access most of its products thereby making the underperforming
social network have an inflated number of users.
This change will be trickling out “In the coming months,”
and the first product to enjoy the change will be the one that was most
negatively impacted by Google’s Google+ obsession: YouTube.
Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president of Streams,
Photos, and Sharing, says the changes area
response to user feedback: “We’ve also heard that it doesn’t make sense
for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products
you use.” He announced that a basic Google account will be all users need to share
content, communicate with contacts, create a Youtube channel and so on. Unlike
your public Google+ profile, your Google account is not searchable or
followable.
In fact, if you already created a Google+ profile but don’t
plan to use Google+, the company says it will “offer better options for
managing and removing” your public profile. Horowitz says the changes are meant
to strike a balance between the select few who actually like Google+, and
everyone else who Google forced to sign up for its social network.
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