Currents

This one. This is the app that I grew up with. Google+ has been my go-to all the time I’ve had it. It’s so unique, and it’s built to meet people across the world and communicate with them. It’s not plagued with corporations and people trying to rush to fame; in fact, fame is a goal that isn’t sought out much on this app. We’ve had our own good times here. Widely-spread inside jokes were made, harassers and threats were swiftly given the boot within a day or two, and even though we were a bit of an underground community, most acquaintances felt like family. Talking to strangers was the norm here, and gave us more friends to talk to. The site itself is great. Notifications are actually important and aren’t in your face. Comments, mentions, and +1’s are all of what you’ll see, and nothing like “someone you know is now following ____” will show up in the notifications tab. It tries to erase competition as best as it can and makes following fair game. Nothing can surpass the moments of Google+’s life. A whole community worked together (most of the time) without staff or celebrities having to tell people what to do. Though we still kept in touch with the outside world, we had our own trends and fads. I’ll miss this place when it’s gone. Google won’t feel like it’s for the people after they shut the site down and replace it with the business version. It reached top 100 in the App Store, bringing in new people that were given warm welcomes.

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It’s sad that this website is closing down on that day. This was my go-to app whenever I want to socialize with my real life friends, so we could find each other and move to Google Hangouts. Now that both Google+ and Google Hangouts will be gone soon, I am very sad. When I make new friends in the future, we won’t have an app where we can go online and talk in. I do know of another app I use, which is Discord, but my friends are clueless about Discord’s existence and never heard of it. Also, it’s hard to invite my friends to Discord because they don’t know it and have busy lives to log in each day. I know Facebook and Twitter are other options, but I don’t want to create accounts there because they ask for real names when I try making accounts, which I’m very uncomfortable with giving out to potential online strangers. I understand that Google felt like Google+ didn’t meet customers’ expectations, but I’m obviously active for more than 5 seconds! I still believe Google+ has a lot of potential. Even though the communities are smaller than Facebook’s, Google+ posts from the users are quality posts! There are no celebrity drama, and the bad people get kicked out easily. A lot of posts are very educational, which I really love about Google+. I’m devastated that it’s going to be gone on April 2 this year!

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Other than Facebook or Twitter with their crappy “Privacy Settings” G+ is the real thing, I’ve been on it for awhile now and I’ve made some cool new friends whom I known for a long time now and other than the “Bugs” it’s working great every update is getting better and better not complaining at all but other than that it’s super addictive I can’t put the phone/Tablet and I pad Down XD Please keep this app updated because I’d prefer to use this more than Facebook, I really don’t want one anyway but I really like Twitter I just joined a few days ago and I kinda like it but the so called “Privacy” needs to be fixed like people could see your tweets and replies and such that’s ok but people needs privacy but I do understand that Twitter is doing that for a reason- I’d totally recommend this app to some people but idk they prefer Facebook over any other Social Media Site

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So, it isn’t as huge as Facebook! It isn’t as old as Facebook! It isn’t as cluttered as Facebook and, it doesn’t get in your face about how many comments or messages are waiting for you! Or, how many are waiting to be your follower! If all of that doesn’t annoy you, then that’s fine! But for me, that’s what I dislike about FB! As for all the new sites, I checked out one and was so confused! Oh! not on one issue, but with everything I have to do to get in.. I already have YT and there is nothing there that’s exciting except to make videos and that has gotten bad! What G+ has is priceless! And, the reason is that it allows everyone to be creative, to be a social butterfly, to show their talent, to talk amongst themselves on acknowledgements and the list goes on and on! But the part that stands out the most is the friendships made from all around the world! Some do not have close family Or friends... This is their family! their friends! So why end something so powerful so soon? 4 years is not enough! Give it more it more time! Give the channels that stands out some gratitude! Better yet, ask us to help make G+ better then ever and outstanding next to all the sites put together! G+ might just be surprised! Nickname “cib”

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It's nice I just hardly use it & low on space so when get Wi-Fi may use icon tablet that is installed there as well. I just have too much going on & behind that lost days going out and sick, etc that not been able to catch up to. Maybe in the near future when I catch up and things slow down I will check it more. Got it for online friend. Bit idea. Some prompt on screen.

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I'm not very educated when it comes to technology, so this app confuses me and frustrates me, but the more I use it and mess around with it, the easier it gets for me with certain parts. Trying to figure out how to delete certain documents/downloads took me over 2 hours LOL! They were different types of downloads and I assumed there was only one way of deleting them.....not the case! One document deleted easily and quickly, but the other wasn't so easy. Had to click on them a few times and wait for a different screen to show to be able to delete it. Very confusing and frustrating, but I got through it finally LOL !!

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Do you devs even listen to your app/site’s users? Every single time you guys update G+, we get glitches, notification purges, and rapid loss of followers. And this recent update is terrible. Here’s a word of advice: LISTEN TO YOUR USERS. Seriously, we all hate the newest update. You can’t even see what people post when you click on their profile picture! Honestly, the previous update was so much better. I had such high hopes for this app, but y’all keep messing it up for the users. On behalf of all the people using Google+, please listen to what we have to say. These updates have been nothing but problematic, and it’s such a major inconvenience when you follow someone and realize you have no idea what kind of stuff they post. Don’t get me wrong, this is the best place to connect with people, but this new update is really irritating. All we ask is for our posts to be visible to the people who view our profiles again. Hopefully y’all listen instead of screwing all your users over like you’ve done so many times (I apologize if this sounds angry. But the new update is such a hassle to deal with.)

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So I try to view my pictures on my phone, but I get a pop-up saying that I have to update Google+. Fine. I update the app, go back to look at my pictures, and... every single one is gone except for what's been stored in Google Photos and Google Drive. Multiple hundreds of photos... just gone. I have 24 pictures left on my phone now, of the 500-something I had before installing a POINTLESS update... If I could get some one-on-one help from someone at Google to rectify this, I'd be very grateful.

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This app was the kiss of death to my S9. It just showed up in my apps after a Samsung update. I uninstalled it and not even 10 minutes later my screen went black and the phone was dead! When I say dead, I mean dead. I had to send it away to be repaired (thank God I had a protection plan) and just got word that it can't be fixed. I will be getting a replacement but lost EVERYTHING that was on the phone.

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This came in as a needed update for google+ which I thought was strange but since Google+ was discontinued but I don't know about these things I let it update, Now when I try to open my Photo Gallery it says I need to turn off the screen overlay in the settings menu. I have tried everything to do that but apparently I'm doing something wrong because nothing I do helps and I still can't get into NY Photo Gallery along with a few others. I also un-insalled the Currents App.

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