What Is Google Plus Good For? - Comments Page 2

I've got an account. I'm not sure what to do with it though. I'm hoping that the photos up there in 'cloud land' with Google+ will survive the next computer meltdown. I'm don't know how to get them back down from 'heaven' though.

I have both Google+ and FB, but don't use either one unless it's absolutely necessary; i.e. being contacted on one of them when it's the only option the sender has.
I still live in my little sometimes online/mostly offline world!

I also have googlemania but lack googlephobia! Who knew in the heyday of invite-only gmail accounts that it would get so all-encompassing? There have been some gossip that gVoice may be folded into googleHangouts and then phased out. I think that gV is one of the best offerings that google provides. Not wanting to lose my gV account in the future, I was lured to "activate" my gHangouts account. Next thing you know, it is trying to lure me to install gChrome browser. I again had to relent. Next, it is asking me to make it my primary browser. I declined but noticed that one google component attempts to become a permanent member of my start-up components. Even upon declining and even when you exit gChrome, it is still running in the background.
I guess I must be very anti-social and was not taught to share at a young age; because I try to use it as little as possible and not solely for its tracking nuisances.
USER'S NOTE: Please don't be 'irked' by the length of my post or the fact that I no longer wish to capitalize google’s first letter. I apologize!

This just in:
Since Google+ launched, many have complained about the service’s requirement that users use their real names. Complaints grew ever louder once Google started pushing users to use Google+ for YouTube comments....
Three years later, Google is giving up on this battle. You can now use just about any name you please. They’ll presumably have some issue if you use something like “Assface Mcgee,” but Google’s official word is that “there are no more restrictions on what name you can use.”
Read remainder at/from http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/15/3-years-later-google-drops-its-dumb-real-name-rule-and-apologizes/

I use for my newer photos's since picasa lost my latest, when old comp went down.
I don't add anyone, hangout,etc.
Google n Facebook are Big Brother to me, ugh, I do use FB, for games and close frds n family.