Google is shutting down its social networking site after "reportedly failing to publicly disclose a security bug affecting hundreds of thousands of accounts on the service," (according to CNN).

The "security bug" is reportedly far-reaching. According to The Washington Post, "Google is shutting down its long-shunned Plus social network for consumers, following its disclosure of a flaw discovered in March that could have exposed some personal information of up to 500,000 people."

The Verge blamed the closure on "the company [Google] reportedly fear[ing] regulatory scrutiny."

The story was originally reported in the Wall Street Journal in advance of a blog post from Google announcing the closure.

In its blog post, Google indicated that data that was potentially exposed was limited:

This data is limited to static, optional Google+ Profile fields including name, email address, occupation, gender and age. (See the full list on our developer site.) It does not include any other data you may have posted or connected to Google+ or any other service, like Google+ posts, messages, Google account data, phone numbers or G Suite content.

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Part of the "Google Plus Your World" search results incorporates pages that your connections on Google+ have "Plus One'd". In the search results, these pages are displayed with a notation about the number of people who have plus one'd that particular page and which of your Google+ connections have plus one'd that particular page. Now, to the right of this plus one information is a link to "Thank them" for helping you find that particular page.

Clicking the link brings up this screen (above) which you can then post to Google+. Your connection(s) who plus one'd the post are automatically tagged in the post but you can tag additional Google+ users. You can also customize the Thank You message. 

You must be logged into a Google account associated with a Google+ profile in order for these recommendations to appear.

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