{"id":409,"date":"2015-06-11T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T07:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=409"},"modified":"2015-06-11T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T07:59:19","slug":"killing-my-google-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"Killing my Google+ accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate Google+. I hate it and all the limitations that come with it. And its limitations are\u00a0why it\u00a0can boast about its numbers but it can&#8217;t\u00a0actually make a dent in the social networking space.<\/p>\n<p>How many Gmail accounts does one person have? I&#8217;m willing to bet it&#8217;s more than two, and that&#8217;s not including work email accounts that are tied to Gmail.<\/p>\n<p>I have three that I&#8217;m juggling. And according to Google, I&#8217;d have to create three separate Google+ accounts for the three emails that I have and I have to\u00a0keep logging in and out of my separate accounts to access different Google products all the time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3c-Ne0uzCV4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2013\/nov\/08\/youtube-cofounder-why-the-fuck-do-i-need-a-google-account-to-comment\" target=\"_blank\">Commenting on or liking a YouTube video<\/a>\u00a0is the worst when you realise you&#8217;re using your work account and you have to then switch to your personal account. I&#8217;ve stopped interacting with YouTube and using its liking, subscribing, and playlist features because of the hassle.<\/p>\n<p>So I spent a few hours today messing around on Google+ and deleting things on the account without actually deleting the account. I had to jump through hoops in <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Picasa<\/a> to delete my profile photo, but I&#8217;m so glad I can add a nickname to this account so that it&#8217;s evidently not in use.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_412\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-412\" class=\"wp-image-412 \" src=\"http:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-3.45.39-pm-1024x610.png\" alt=\"Good Riddance\" width=\"460\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-3.45.39-pm-1024x610.png 1024w, https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-3.45.39-pm-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-3.45.39-pm-1080x643.png 1080w, https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-3.45.39-pm.png 1514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Good Riddance.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Come up with a better plan please, Google. I actually like some of your products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate Google+. I hate it and all the limitations that come with it. And its limitations are\u00a0why it\u00a0can boast about its numbers but it can&#8217;t\u00a0actually make a dent in the social networking space. How many Gmail accounts does one person have? I&#8217;m willing to bet it&#8217;s more than two, and that&#8217;s not including work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}