Do you know anyone who still uses Google+?
Well, you may want to let them know the social network will be shuttered by August 2019, after Google acknowledged 鈥渧ery low usage鈥� on the platform.
鈥淚t has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps,鈥� the company wrote in a Monday blog post.
鈥淭he consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.鈥�
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In the blog post, the company said it was closing down Google+ in part because of a security bug it discovered during a March 2018 audit.
The blog post came moments after alleging that Google knew about the bug but chose not to share the information with users after it found no evidence of wrongdoing.
According to Google, the bug meant that apps also had access to profile fields that were shared with the user, but not marked as public.
The company said that up to 500,000 Google+ accounts were possibly affected.
鈥淲e found no evidence that any developer was aware of this bug, or abusing the API, and we found no evidence that any profile data was misused,鈥� the company stated.
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