Google has listened to the people and made Google+ registration no longer mandatory for new accounts.
If you are signing up for a new Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs account, you will now have the ability to say "No Thanks" to creating a Google+ account. Previously, you had to create a social networking profile whether or not you wanted one.
The latest move follows Google's decision ... [ read the full article ]
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As if I was ever anything but "Bozobub Clownlord" to Google+, anyhow, just as I am to Facebook xD. My real name is NOT their business, much less that of the internet at large.
I can't see them phasing this out, simply because they integrated it into so many of their products and also into search, where that's the only advantage to having a Google+ profile. It's otherwise a dead social network.
Well, as a more unified cross-platform comment system, the skeletal remains of Google+ can be useful to Google for a long time. It gives them FAR more control over comments from several sources, and also simplifies changes/updates to that framework.
