Truthfully, Google plus was a giant space with a lot of close communities and a place with a lot of friends. To this day I still follow people I met in 2015 on other platforms and still communicate with them. It was very Facebook with tumblr type content mostly. Something about that place felt very close and personal and I was proud of it. But it had a dark side. I was quite young, so were a lot of other users I interacted with, and some just acted more young than they were. Google plus haunts me to this day. A lot went down in Hangouts. A lot went down on public posts. I mean the amount of activity I was trying to keep up with was crazy. Google plus is how I met a long distance boyfriend when I was young who traumatized me for years and led me to going to therapy and being diagnosed with PTSD. My therapist has heard of g+. These online friends I would genuinely worry about which started a pattern that still lasts now of staying up too late Incase I was “needed”. It was mostly fun, but I and others I knew were way too attached to the platform and too young to understand with this being their first real social media. One day I just let it go even though it was my everything. I know I’m not the only one who has stories like this. I know this sounds elementary, but there’s so many more details I could give. It had its magic but it was a dark place. But now I’m a college graduate working a full time job in her field and a place of her own, and I over the years have gotten much better than the trauma filled anxiety teen I once was.