Here’s the last call from Google to save your Buzz account. On or after July 17, the search engine company will take the last step in the shutdown.
Google had announced its plans to close the micro-blogging-cum-social networking window last year. It, however, gave ample time for the users to withdraw from the window.
Tucked within Gmail, Buzz allowed the users to post comments, links and automatically share them with friends.
Keeping in view the fast changing scenario in social networking and development of its own (Google Plus), the search engine firm has decided to phase out Buzz.
“In October 2011, we announced Google Buzz was shutting down. On or after July 17, 2013, Google will take the last step in the shutdown and will save a copy of your Buzz posts to your Google Drive, a service for storing files online,” Google has informed the Buzz users.
Google will store two types of files to your Google Drive, and the newly created files will not count against your storage limits.
“The first type of file will be private, only accessible to you, containing a snapshot of the Google Buzz public and private posts you authored. The second type of file will contain a copy of only your Google Buzz public posts. By default it will be viewable by anyone with the link, and may appear in search results and on your Google Profile,” the company said in the mail.
Any comments you made on other users’ posts will only be saved to those users’ files and not to yours.
“If you do not want any of your Buzz posts or comments saved to Google Drive files, you can immediately delete your Google Buzz account and data,” the mail said.