Google+: now you can add user accounts

Google back on one aspect to which attention has always declared. According to the leaders of the Mountain View company, users should always be free to freely manage their data, including those loaded on a social network. Users must be masters of their information and, therefore, must be placed at their disposal adequate tool to import and export data (Google’s position was made ​​clear already over two years ago with the initiative Data Liberation Front ).


The same Sergey Brin, had repeatedly criticized the “closed”, for example, the rival Facebook . Today Google returns to the subject by explaining that students enrolled in Google + , the social network of giant founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, will merge multiple user accounts by mixing, for example, contacts and groups from a profile with those in another managed. union accounts can be obtained simply by using Tool ” Google Takeout “, accessible from this page after login).

Google has nevertheless decided to impose some limitations: the data transfer will take place only after seven days of the request and the instrument will be used only once every six months. As soon as you will be prompted to merge multiple user accounts, the procedure can not be canceled or stopped in any way. Data migration will take 48 hours to be brought to conclusion during which you will not post content or manage your list of contacts.