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rohan1024 on Dec 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to priva...

They did that because cost of maintaining platform was higher than its ROI. If Google+ had like 300M-400M monthly active users I don't think they would have shut down Google+

digianarchist on Dec 14, 2018 [–]

The ROI on Google+ has been negative since before it launched.

aylmao on Dec 15, 2018 | [–]

Investments tend to take a while to return-- this one didn't pay off though.

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