I think these brand pages tend to ultimately destroy the simple experience of interacting with other human beings which services like Google+ are built around.

I think these brand pages tend to ultimately destroy the simple experience of interacting with other human beings which services like Google+ are built around. To be honest I'm pretty happy that things don't seem to be going that way, something I talked about on my site in a recent article (http://frog.io/blog/google-plus http://frog.io/blog/google-plus).