Saturday, January 30, 2016

Changes

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Somehow, because I am not a computer geek, I seem to be late to the party. You see, Google has been shutting down a lot of their previous services. One of which is Google Friend connect. Okay, so I started noticing that some of my followers were going away. Why is that, I wondered? Then I saw a post on another blog stating the same thing.  Well, what do you know? It's really happening. Here is what was posted on Google.

In 2011, we announced the retirement of Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time, we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So, in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect and follow blogs.
As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.
We encourage you to tell affected readers (perhaps via a blog post), that if they use a non-Google Account to follow your blog, they need to sign up for a Google Account, and re-follow your blog. With a Google Account, they’ll get blogs added to their Reading List, making it easier for them to see the latest posts and activity of the blogs they follow.
We know how important followers are to all bloggers, but we believe this change will improve the experience for both you and your readers.  
 
So the story goes, if you do not have a Google account, you won't be able to 
follow me.  I think! 
You can follow me by email, or bloglovin, but there will no longer 
be GFC for non Google accounts. Sad, so sad. Why do they have to 
change things when everything is going so well? 

I really don't want to lose any of my followers, and I hope that you 
will get this message before everybody goes away. 
Does everybody know about this already?

3 comments:

Amy, a redeemed sheep said...

This is why I offer my readers a way to subscribe to my blog via email, along with GFC and Bloglovin. I venture to guess most follow me via Bloglovin and via email. Your friends will find you!!!

NanaNor's said...

Hi there, I was thankful to see this info and will post it on Monday on my blog so I won't loose any more followers. Thanks again for sharing it.
Hugs,
Noreen

GARAGE SALE GAL said...

I wish THEY would leave us bloggers alone. I have lost many followers. I think I'm a google follower...too much to think about. I just want to blog!
Anyway...Happy weekend!
warmly,
deb