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What exactly does "sunsetting consumer Google+" mean? The blog post wasn't particularly enlightening. Are they shutting down Google+ as a social network?

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From the article: "Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers."

They will keep it active as an internal network, but regular old joes won't be able to use Google+ anymore.

What about enterprise customers, does that remain or get sunset?

They're going to continue to develop is, according to the post.

So why not just also leave it alone for the "consumers" who have developed communities there?

Asking the wrong person there, probably a lot easier for them I guess.

> They will keep it active as an internal network

Probably, but the key point made in the article is that it will continue as an enterprise product, not just an internal one (though presumably Google is one of the enterprises that will continue using it.)

So, nothing's changing?

Ha!

They are shutting down the consumer version, which is the public edition. They are going to continue to develop and market Google+ for Businesses (like Facebook for Work).

What exactly does "sunsetting consumer Google+" mean? The blog post wasn't particularly enlightening. Are they shutting down Google+ as a social network?

FTA: Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers. seems pretty obvious that's the case.

I mean, I get the term "sunsetting" - that isn't the problem. I don't know what "consumer Google+" means. I can guess that it might refer to the use of Google+ by ordinary people as a social network, but I'm far from certain of that interpretation.

It is one you access via https://plus.google.com .

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