Despite being the butt of social media jokes for a while now, Google+ isn’t going anywhere – it has just been given a revamp.<\/p>\n
The “new” site will now focus on “collections” and “communities” – making it more an interest-network than a personal one.<\/p>\n
In a blog post, Google said: “Today, we’re starting to introduce a fully redesigned Google+ that puts Communities and Collections front and centre.<\/p>\n
Now focused around interests, the new Google+ is much simpler.<\/p>\n
“And it’s more mobile-friendly – we’ve rebuilt it across web, Android and iOS so that you’ll have a fast and consistent experience whether you are on a big screen or small one.”<\/p>\n
Another post, on Google+, said the company had been visiting users in their homes to get feedback.<\/p>\n
“We’ve spent lots of time talking to people who are passionate about Google+. We visited them in their homes, we invited them into early testing communities and we learned more about how and why they use Google+.<\/p>\n
“The predominant answer? Having a great place to keep up with and talk about their interests.”<\/p>\n
The company said it had analysed how people were using the network and that people kept on coming back for those features in particular.<\/p>\n
Picked apart<\/strong><\/p>\n Google+ was launched without much fuss in June 2011, as reported on by my predecessor Maggie Shiels.<\/p>\n The grand plan was to mimic our own social circles, of friends, colleagues and family, by having actual circles in Google+ with those people.<\/p>\n A neat idea, but one that people ultimately never engaged with.<\/p>\n At that time, Facebook already had 500m users, and showed no sign of slowing down.<\/p>\n Recently, it’s been looking like Google+ was being slowly and miserably dismantled. Picked apart like a written-off car that still had a few good bits of engine: Innovative aspects, like the Hangouts video chat feature, were spun out into stand-alone services, for example.<\/p>\n Also, the integration with YouTube, which everyone hated, was dropped.<\/p>\n But Google+ is fighting on for another day. Less ambitious than 2011’s incarnation, but with a clearer goal.<\/p>\n Whether anyone will care is another matter. The new look is being rolled out now, and for a short time users will be able to revert to “old” Google+ while the transition is being completed.<\/p>\n Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC (and Google+ for that matter – where the latest activity on my page is a reader calling me a muppet a year or so ago). Despite being the butt of social media jokes for a while now, Google+ isn’t going anywhere – it has just been given a revamp. The “new” site will now focus on “collections” and “communities” – making it more an interest-network than a personal one. In a blog post, Google said: “Today, we’re starting to introduce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":167662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-167661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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