Getting out of Google +

[Microman]

Wifes account got Google +.

She and I both don't like it.

How do I get to just have GMAIL again.?

[vision63]

You simply don't use it. There's no getting out of it. It's your profile.

[Ombligo]

Yeah, just ignore it. I ignore mine (along with Linkedin, Facebook and whatever else is popular these days.

[sekker]

I almost never use my google+ except for hangouts.

[vision63]

sekker wrote:
I almost never use my google+ except for hangouts.

I use the heck out of hangouts.

[Article Accelerator]

vision63 wrote:
You simply don't use it. There's no getting out of it. It's your profile.

Exactly. Microman will be just one of hundreds of millions that google will claim to be google+ users that actually are not.

[silvarios]

Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=vision63]
You simply don't use it. There's no getting out of it. It's your profile.

Exactly. Microman will be just one of hundreds of millions that google will claim to be google+ users that actually are not.
So true. I actually have Google+ blocked on my hosted accounts. Apparently Hangouts doesn't work with group chats because of it. Oh well.

[rz]

I refused to sign up for it. I just need gmail.

[vision63]

rz wrote:
I refused to sign up for it. I just need gmail.

That means you actually have it, you just don't know it. It's actually not bad. They make it easy to keep your worlds separate. It's a great way to follow bands and artists. It's a great sharing platform for photographers. Then there's Hangouts which is just like "Messages" except everybody can get them, not just people Apple devices.

[silvarios]

Google+ is perfectly acceptable as a social platform, in my opinion, my problem is the increased desire for Google to opt everyone into all of their services.

Put it this way, I don't mind the single login for Google services (remember when you had a YouTube account, Gmail account, etc.) and I don't even mind Google+ being better integrated, to a point. However, let me the user decided which features I want and allow each to be enabled or disabled as necessary. Might seem strange, but maybe I want to post YouTube videos, follow people on Google+, but not have Gmail. Maybe I just want YouTube. Maybe I want Gmail and YouTbe.