BUGGER AGAIN

"Following the announcement of Google+ API deprecation scheduled for March 2019, a number of changes will be made to Blogger’s Google+ integration on 4 February 2019.
Google+ widgets: Support for the '+1 Button', 'Google+ Followers' and 'Google+ Badge' widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog.
+1 buttons: The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed.
Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features, you may need to update your template. Please contact your template supplier for advice.
Google+ Comments: Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ comments will be reverted back to using Blogger comments. Unfortunately, comments posted as Google+ comments cannot be migrated to Blogger and will no longer appear on your blog."

This message has been appearing at the top of my blog over the last few weeks.

I've also been receiving messages on my gmail email address saying that the account will disappear on 1 April.

I'm finding it difficult to log onto g-mail as well.

I hardly ever use g-mail but used the account to set up a Facebook account and am now concerned that this will go up in smoke. Normally I wouldn't care as I think Facebook is a big wank and didn't want to use either of my two Xtra email accounts to set up a Facebook account but having just signed up for an adult education course, a Facebook connection is necessary to submit assignments and other inputs. Bummer!


Have any other blog community members been getting this?