Google+

Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus) was an Internet-based social network that was owned and operated by Google. The service, Google's fourth foray into social networking, experienced strong growth in its initial years, although usage statistics have varied depending on how the service is defined. Three Google executives have overseen the service, which has undergone substantial changes leading to a redesign in November 2015. It was later closed down for consumers on 2 April 2019. Google+ continued to exist for G Suite, which was later renamed Google Currents.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It tried to compete with Facebook and Tumblr too much. The result was, predictably, messing up the website and adding various awful features.
 * 2) The name sounds more like an enhanced/expanded version of Google, which isn't fitting for a social network.
 * 3) Much like YouTube, it had a lot of bad updates. The updates go from "okay" to "outright terrible" (but not severe like Vyond or ImageShack).
 * 4) Like on Tumblr, the report system was rather dysfunctional. Sometimes reporting either unruly users or trolls ten times wouldn't yield any results.
 * 5) There's a chance that your post may disappear after logging out of your Google+ account and back in because Google may identify it as spam and delete it.
 * 6) If you try to adopt a random community because of inactive or no mods and full of trolls, toxic fanboys, fangirls, or spambots on random communities, nothing happened and the staff did not even respond.
 * 7) Creating polls was limited; you could only make 5-choice polls instead of 8.
 * 8) When you change your username, it would not allow you to change it again for 3 months.
 * 9) On January 18, 2017, they removed the classic layout which was beloved by people and replaced it with a generic Android layout. This caused some angry people to quit G+ entirely and move on to Twitter, Facebook, or Tumblr. Some G+ users think that "Google is becoming greedier".
 * 10) The site has lost its charm since 2017 and is nothing like it was from 2011 to 2016.
 * 11) It nearly killed YouTube. Back in November 2013, a Google+ integration was required. Thankfully, this policy was revoked in early 2014.
 * 12) Worst of all is that Google covered up an incident where at least hundreds of thousands of users on the network had their private information exposed out of fear that confirming the security flaw would bring "regulatory scrutiny" as well as "reputation damage". Because of that, Google+ had no other choice but to shut down.
 * 13) *Google didn't learn from their mistakes, resulting in yet another leak to occur that affected more users and resulted in having the August 2019 shutdown get pushed forward to April.
 * 14) *This led to a lawsuit. Google settled the $7.5 million lawsuit by paying each claimant $2.15. https://www.googleplusdatalitigation.com/

Good Qualities

 * 1) Without the site, there wouldn't be many helpful users and good people and artists.
 * 2) Creating a group (which is called community) on this site was much better than creating a Facebook group.
 * 3) Around December 2012, they introduced the "community", which replaced "group". Which is an interesting and solid concept idea, unlike other social media sites like Facebook that have the "group" feature. Google+ allows you to make a community either public or private with categories.
 * 4) Around late summer 2016, they added a gifs/image button on comment section, which allows Google+ users to post either funny image/gif or other stupid stuffs on comment section. Sadly, it was really late to add that feature in 2016. The feature could have been added in either late 2014 or early 2015.
 * 5) Depending on your view, this was one of the handful of social websites that almost lacked social justice warriors, neo-Nazis and pedophiles. The reason why they rarely appeared was that trolls, raiders, and baitposters overshadow them.
 * 6) Owners of YouTube channels could promote it here and there were groups that are dedicated to that.
 * 7) In 2015, Google+ was no longer required to use YouTube.
 * 8) Unlike Twitter, you can edit your posts and there were no letter limit, making it more user-friendly.

Reception and parody
SRo_FIo9RMM It is considered to be one of the worst Google products created along with Google Lens (an "ORC product" that mocks languages for "sounding like drunk English", yes, you read that right) and Stadia. In 2013, Saberspark made fun of the website by parodying it. He used to make parodies before he started reviewing animated shows and movies.