I've been getting mysterious messages about Google+ going away in my email. I'm not sure what it really means because I'm in the 'dinosaur with technology' category when it comes to understanding the online world. I've only just recently even started paying my bills on line...and that only happened because I finally got fed up with the additional fees my bank kept seeing fit to bombard me with simply because I dared to maintain a checking account with them. Honestly, it's like they don't want your business unless you are wealthy enough to make it worth their wile to ignore you and provide bad service if any at all. So I wandered over to a local credit union and found out they are NICE to me and WANTED MY BUSINESS (regardless of how small it may be) and they even offer MUCH BETTER RATES for all the services that I am interested in. It's like fate was telling me there was a better deal out there if I would just open my eyes and take a look! And so I have. And I'm amused that my bank did make a last ditch effort to keep me at the 11th hour but it was a feeble attempt and made halfheartedly by a disinterested phone rep.
But I digress. My purpose in posting this time is to say I don't know what if anything is going to happen to this blog. I'm concerned of course and you can easily tell that by the picture that accompanies this post. As I said I don't know what the email messages really mean....is Google going away? Is my email going away? Are my blogs going away? Or are they just changing something? I've tried looking it up on line and have seen some messages that sound like things are changing but not going away. But the emails really seemed ominous in content and I did back up my blogs just in case. However, I also don't want to lose my email either or have to change to a new one...I tend to save things in my email and don't want to be forced to look at all those saved emails to determine if I really need them or not. It's like being a hoarder but in email form....they are ALL important and I can't throw any of it away!
Another search for information makes me think that perhaps I'm not standing in front of an oncoming train at all. It seems that something called Google Plus (Google+) is some kind of social media site that is run (unsuccessfully) by Google and they are stopping it due to low usage. This is the kind of detail you get when you stop screaming and running around in circles (always my first reaction to bad news) and start actually reading the information provided by Google. I THINK the Google+ thing was probably attached to my blogs and email just because they are hosted by Google. I certainly did not ever join anything on purpose that's for sure. And if I am correct I may just be worrying here for no reason. Let's hope this is the case.
But just to be sure, I think I'll find myself a tech friend and ask them what's going on. Hopefully they will be able to explain it in baby terms so I get it. I have no illusions about being technical minded at all.
