Thank you for taking the time to read and respond. From an admittedly perhaps poorly informed outside perspective, there still seems to be fear and uncertainty

Thank you for taking the time to read and respond. From an admittedly perhaps poorly informed outside perspective, there still seems to be fear and uncertainty (FUD?) around the deactivation of access to Google services and whether and what the side-effects may be. This may merge somewhat with some of the comments that appear regarding Adsense, et al. Different services, but the outsider observes (and perhaps incorrectly comingles) that when there is a dis-continuation, a clear description of the nature of the problem and/or any communication to resolve it, can seem nearly impossible to get. Nothing I'm sure you haven't heard/read before -- and, no, I am not qualified to speak to it with any authority, not anecdotally much less from any professional perspective. I do think there continues to be a... "missing element", from some of Google's current perspective. Or from whatever warped version of that is currently being presented in the media. Google, users, and advertisers used to be pretty much, for lack of a better perspective, "on the same page". (Yeah, that might also be a pun.) Without being able to fully evaluate why, there seems to be more arguing going on now, amongst those factions. Perhaps that is really, at core, what is going wrong. (To extent there is something wrong; I mean, Google's not exactly hurting for business.) I'll stop now. If you've read through this, I've chewed up more than enough of your time. Regards P.S. I haven't looked at Pages (I'm approaching feature overload -- taken across the Internet as a whole). I will say, to that, that sometimes the simplest approach to avoiding co-mingling is simply to establish and maintain separate entities. The old, "no one knows your are a dog" situation and approach. Some people just want to KISS. Added: Perhaps I am contradicting myself, in this last. And I've seen some of the gamesmanship that (ab)users can created out of unbridled anonymity. But, if I'm going to investing in learning and curating a complex, private-party-platform identity, I guess I need some reassurance going in that the features I need -- e.g. control of scope and identity -- are both present and inviolate. Rightly or wrongly, some of the initial controversy around Plus and identities there did some real damage to this.