What is Google Plus? These are the most important facts

Google Plus is one of the many services that Google offers its users. What exactly Google Plus is about, how it works and what conditions must be met to use it, we explain in this article.

This is what Google Plus does

Google Plus is a social network founded by Google in 2011 to compete with Facebook. In this, Google Plus is structured similarly to Facebook and has, in addition to a newsfeed, a news function and the ability to create private and public groups. You can also access Hangout through Google Plus to make video calls with your friends. Even though Google Plus had more than 500 million members, the platform was discontinued in April 2019.

How to use Google Plus

Until the social network was discontinued in April 2019, all you needed to use Google Plus was a Google account, which you can create for free at "google.com". The creation of a Google account is also a prerequisite for using the other Google services such as Google Docs or Google Drive.

1. If you do not have a Google account yet, please click on "Sign in" in the upper right corner of Google's website and select the option "Create account".
2. Geben Sie nun alle erforderlichen Daten wie Name und E-Mail-Adresse ein und stimmen Sie den Datenschutzbedingungen zu.
3. Klicken Sie anschließend auf „Konto erstellen“, um die Einrichtung des Accounts abzuschließen.