Google minus: underperforming social network Google+ scaled back

Users of YouTube and other services will no longer need a Google+ account to join, in attempt to downsize reach of failed rival to Facebook and Twitter

Oh, Google+, we hardly knew you. Because we never used you. Even though your parent company systematically forced us all into signing up for accounts. You were the new odd kid in class nobody wanted to talk to, but we were all forced to.

Now, in a blog post entitled "Everything in its right place", which may or may not be a Radiohead reference, the company has announced it is scaling back the reach of Google+, its underperforming social network.