#YouMe looks interesting, I'm checking it out now. At the moment I'm on #Minds: www.minds.com/JessicaMeyer.

#YouMe looks interesting, I'm checking it out now. At the moment I'm on #Minds: www.minds.com/JessicaMeyer.

update: I've created an account on YouMe just in case: www.youme.social/-JessicaMeyer


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Time to move to a new location

Our final post on Google+

We have been on Google+ since late 2011 and its been a great site to share news and information on the European Union. However like everything, it is now a time to change where we will be located due to Google+ shutting down.

We looked at three potential homes, these being MeWe, Pluspora and YouMe Social.

The criteria we used was the ability for people to view the content both within the site as well as outside, the general political stance of the site itself, the ability to establish collections and communities [or similar], the location of the site, the potential to expand our followers within the European Union etc.

After assessing all three sites, we ruled out US based MeWe despite having about 50,000 Google+ members due to its location, its restriction on public viewing of our content, the political stance of its owners and the required features we are looking for.

US based Pluspora was also ruled out due to the current inability of establishing communities and collections, despite being the second largest of the three.

The only one that is based within the European Union, has communities, collections, allows for posts to be seen not only by members but also by the general public outside the site, and has a more neutral stance (neither right nor left) is YouMe Social.

It is the smallest of the three, however we see the potential of its expansion within the European Union being the greatest of the reviewed sites. It is not perfect however as a site which is barely 3 months old, it also has the closest feel to the current Google+.

Once YouMe Social introduces the ability of importing our content from Google+, we will be moving all the posts here and in the European Union community to the site.

So, thank you for following us for the last 7 years and thank you for your comments, your +1s and your support.

To Google, thank you for giving us the opportunity of being here and for a great social media site.

We will delete this site and the European Union community late on April 1st

Our new home is here: https://www.youme.social/-europeanunion

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