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Google on Monday announced it was shutting down its social media platform Google Plus. The tech giant said it was doing so due to “significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ product that meets consumers’ expectations”. However, the company also said that data of around 500,000 users on the platform may have been exposed to external developers by a software bug that was present for more than two years.
The company said in a blog on Monday it had discovered and patched the leak in March of this year and had no evidence that the user data had been misused or that any developer had exploited the vulnerability.
But what surprised many was that the Google Plus was still around. On Twitter, many joked at the platform had been on a ventilator and the company had just pulled the plug on it. Other social media platforms have been flooded with memes and jokes.
Like these:
https://twitter.com/Vanilla__bby/status/1049429718645317633
https://twitter.com/1stGradeShaman/status/1049416066940772353
https://twitter.com/da_667/status/1049357816333516801
https://twitter.com/slyshii/status/1049517027386376197
https://twitter.com/OshiriStudios/status/1049408231381102592
Here’s everything you need to know about the data leak and what you can do if you want to delete your account.
