Google officially made an announcement on splitting Youtube and Google+. According to that, you’ll soon be able to comment, upload, and create channels without Google+. The comments you make on YouTube will appear only on YouTube and not on Google+ (and vice versa).
People have told that accessing all of their Google stuff with one account makes life a whole lot easier. But they also said that it doesn’t make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use.
Google+ is quickly becoming a place where people engage around their shared interests, with the content and people who inspire them. In line with that focus, Google+ is continuing to add new features like Collections, where you can share and enjoy posts organized by the topics you care about.
Youtube said, “If you’re happy with everything as it is now, then just keep on keeping on. If you want to remove your Google+ profile, you’ll be able to do this in the coming months, but do not do it now or you’ll delete your YouTube channel (no bueno).”
So in the coming months, a Google Account will be all you’ll need to share content, communicate with contacts, create a YouTube channel and more, all across Google. YouTube will be one of the first products to make this change.
Bradley Horowitz, VP of Google Photos and Streams says in his Google+ post,
Four years ago when we conceived of the “Google+ Project”, we made it clear that our goals were always two-fold: Google+ aspired to be both a “platform layer that unified Google’s sharing models”, and a product / stream / app in its own right.
This was a well-intentioned goal, but as realized it led to some product experiences that users sometimes found confusing. For instance, and perhaps most controversially, integration with YouTube implied that leaving a comment on YouTube (something users had obviously been doing successfully for years) suddenly and unexpectedly required “joining Google+.”
We decided it’s time to fix this, not only in YouTube, but across a user’s entire experience at Google. We want to formally retire the notion that a Google+ membership is required for anything at Google… other than using Google+ itself.
Comments are super important to the relationship between creators and fans on YouTube. And the creators want to hear from fans, just as much as you want to communicate with them. All of these conversations should be simpler and easier to have on YouTube, and have been working on that.
They have improved the ranking system that reduces the visibility of junk comments. It’s working—the rate of dislikes on comments has dropped by more than 35 percent across YouTube.
And for people who already created Google+ profiles but don’t plan to use Google+ itself, Google offer better options for managing and removing those public profiles.
Google said these changes roll out in stages over several months. While it won’t happen overnight, they’re right for Google’s users—both the people who are on Google+ every single day, and the people who aren’t.
Google also move some features that aren’t essential to an interest-based social experience out of Google+. For example, Recently, Google Plus Photos will be shut down from August 1, 2015 by the arrival of Google Photos, a new photo and video application.
The Google+ Photos have been moved into the new Google Photos app, and they are well underway putting location sharing into Hangouts and other apps, where it really belongs. The changes like these will lead to a more focused, more useful, more engaging Google+.
