It was long overdue but Google's like "its never too late". Keeping that in mind, Google+ is de-linking its profiles from other popular Google services with YouTube being first in line. "While we got certain things right, we made a few choices that, in hindsight, we’ve needed to rethink. So over the next few months, we’re going to be making some important changes," Google said on its official blog. Separately, YouTube on its blog explained that users only needed a Google profile to make comments on the video platform. The comments users make on YouTube will now appear only on YouTube and not on Google+. Comments made on Google+ will only appear on the social media site and not on YouTube comments. The company also explained that users only need a Google Account to share content, communicate with contacts, create a YouTube channel and more, all across Google. "Your underlying Google Account won’t be searchable or followable, unlike public Google+ profiles," Bradley Horowitz, vice president for photos and streams said on the blog. "And for people who already created Google+ profiles but don’t plan to use Google+ itself, we’ll offer better options for managing and removing those public profiles," he added. However, YouTube cautioned users saying that deleting a Google+ profile will mean that they will delete their YouTube channel. "If you want to remove your Google+ profile, you’ll be able to do this in the coming months, but do not do it now or you’ll delete your YouTube channel (no bueno)," YouTube said on its blog. Winding down…
