Sherry,


Gmail is alive and well.


What is going away is Google Plus, which is Google's social network, 
kind of like Facebook. It went online around 2011, but it hasn't taken 
off as well as Google had hoped. My guess is that people had already 
joined Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, etc., and couldn't deal with yet 
another network. That was my own experience, at least.


Hope this helps.


Ciao



On 2/1/2019 11:55 AM, Sherry Wells wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I got the following question from a friend.  It made no sense to me.  I
> thought it was probably a scam but thought I'd run it by this list just in
> case.  Here's the email from my friend:
>
> I got a notice today which indicates that my gmail account is a google plus
> account and that these accounts will be shut down in April.  I am trying to
> figure out how to keep my gmail account and get rid of the google plus part
> of the account. Is this issue something that you have encountered on the
> technology lists that you subscribe to?
>
> Thanks,
> Sherry Wells
>
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