The last bastion of Google+ is finally crumbling

Social networks come and go all the time, but few of them debut with backing from a company as big as Google. Google+ first launched in 2011, with the company seeking to leverage its status as the world’s most visited website to position itself as competition to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Google did everything it could to tie as many of its services as possible to Google+ in a desperate bid to get people to use it, but ultimately, it didn’t catch on, and it ended up being discontinued for consumers in 2019. A retooled version of the social network was kept around for business users, now named Google Currents. But even that’s going away, too — meaning the last remaining crumbs of Google+ will be officially gone in a matter of months.