And why can I say that? I can because Google+, despite whatever faults it had, especially in how it was managed, and hardly promoted at all, as well as in about as inept a fashion as one could ever imagine. was still an oasis of a public commons; a commons used for some of the richest, most textured, content on the Web. Content that was done, most of the time, with some taste, civility, and from a diversity of informed providers. Something I partook of a lot, back in more simple times, when we weren't pegging the crazy meter so much.
And in case you hadn't noticed, we've got a lot on the line now, as individuals. As a Nation. As members of a larger community of nations. And, perhaps most importantly of all, as sentient members, of a miracle of evolved complexity called life. Living, self sustaining sets of proof that process itself can be divine. And now we need a public commons like Google+ like never before.
And yes, keeping something like that going is going to be a bit messy. Certainly a bit technically challenging, but that is exactly what we face here as a problem, only now for the whole enchilada of whether any of this divine process will be allow to continue, or not, as well. And I would think, with a company that has the kind of creativity that is exactly exemplified by what Google+ displayed; I would think that company could make it work properly, whatever the challenges were. Just as those same employees would meet their own civil responsibilities, in what's going to be required to take on the higher challenges coming, now that we must work together somehow to save this planet.
Google+ Is Shutting Down, And No One Really Cares
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