{"id":138527,"date":"2019-04-02T19:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138527"},"modified":"2019-04-02T19:19:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:19:11","slug":"aloha-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/aloha-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Aloha, Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I resented the platform when it first came out in 2011, as Google shut down its (RSS) Reader application to do so. But as an early adopter I came to love Plus for its ease of use, and for the great communities and individuals I found there to discuss everything from politics to geeky pop culture, from things going on in my life to photos of my neighborhood.<\/p>\n

It was a great space, even if Google became increasingly dysfunctional in how it supported it. Still, it had a run of 7+ years, which is not at all bad, and I met a lot of interesting folk that I’m still following around on Twitter and Pluspora and Feedly.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all the folk at Google (or wherever they’ve moved on to) who worked so hard to give us a fine place to gather and chat. It made my life a bit better while it was around — and that’s not for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google turns out the light at its social site. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,55,4],"tags":[166,1801],"class_list":["post-138527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-business","category-blogging-technical","category-personal","tag-google","tag-plus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/google-plus-shutdown.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49727,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/schrodingers-google.html","url_meta":{"origin":138527,"position":0},"title":"Schrodinger's Google+","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Mar-15 2:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not sure which is more annoying (and hilarious) whenever Google announces anything about Google+A. 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