I'm forever thankful to Google and Google+ for their generosity in accommodating creative works of arts. And if they are to shut down Google+ that's fine.
If you have a computer with 500 GB HD or a TB storage where you can store your own work of arts you don't really lose anything. Except of course the people who made remarkable remarks and comments, those wonderful people who were part of your life and appreciate the works you made, the priceless photographs you posted for public viewing. Google+ is not just a library, it is an art gallery for photographers (professionals and amateurs), artisans, scientists, chefs and cooks, educators/teachers, historians, archeologist, students, writers, anybody who wished their art forms in any size, shape and format, abstract or still life and their knowledge been praised and appreciated.
I have my own original copy of all my artworks. My photographs, I know my photographs and my work of arts. Remember I have a very long memory. Whether I posted them on Google+ , Google, Blogger blogs or on facebook; I think educated people will make it possible to at least be courteous and have the courtesy to make footnotes or acknowledge the person behind such photos and work of arts.
Acknowledgement is such a super great thing. It's one of the best moral ethics of being a human. The human rights violation is so rampant nowadays because everyone fails to acknowledge what is right from wrong. They lack the wisdom.
In today's time when we are bombarded with so much gazillion information and when they thought they have computer and through the internet everything is free. Nothing's free. You have to pay for internet connection and you pay the hydro or electric power. WE DO THAT ALL THE TIME. Religiously. You probably using cellphone and have that instagram and your bandwith? You only have 4 GB or 8 GB. That's only few photos of storage, unlike having 500 GB HD.
We bought a laptop/notebook with 32 GB HD and when I download some photos the laptop collapsed. Crazy! It crashed right away in just one hour of using such device. I had a laptop computer with 250 GB HD storage 10 years ago and that too collapsed and crashed as soon as I get to twitter. With just hundreds of tweets simultaneously the computer will collapse, crashed and burned. Why? The funny thing about this case is why You tube can accommodate thousands to hundred millions of clicks per hour? What kind of magnetic cores they had? What kind of computer or technology they use for such hundred million clicks? Supposedly, with such super fast per click basis simultaneously that can crash any machine, no matter how high-tech the device or gadget or even if its a super computer. Maybe their per click basis (equivalent to 1 click/1,000), rather 1 click = 1,000 views.
Anyway...
At least I have memory cards where all my photos are stored. To never delete photos stored in the memory cards. For Google+ to have all the Google+ users collection of your creative art works they should own at least 20,000 TB storage. That's a financial burden. We really can't blame them if they want to shut down.
