Google is dropping Google Plus, the social network platform that it had launched four years ago, withdrawing it as the central hub for all Google-related activity, a report said.

It means that you don’t need a Google Plus profile for performing several tasks within Google products, such as commenting on a YouTube video, among other ramifications, said a report in The Hindu.

Google has announced more sweeping changes for Google Plus over the next few months as it restructures network into two distinctly separate products: streams and photos.

“People have told us that accessing all of their Google stuff with one account makes life a whole lot easier,” Bradley Horowitz, Google’s vice president of photos and sharing, wrote in a company blog.

Google now says that in the coming months, you’ll only need to create a Google account to do things such as creating a YouTube channel, communicating with contacts and other key functionalities.

Google will add a new feature called Google Plus Collections, which lets users share and read posts sorted by existing topics or all-new user-generated topics.

The social network’s location sharing ability will be moved over to Hangouts and other unspecified apps, the report said.

“We think changes like these will lead to a more focused, more useful, more engaging Google Plus,” Horowitz wrote.

“For our part, the biggest issue with Google’s social network is that it just wasn’t social enough — the layout of the site wasn’t as inviting or friendly as Facebook’s traditional layout has been and we still haven’t seen any indication that Google really gets how the social web works,” Google explained on its official blog.