I really don't feel the pressure yet. The article is certainly right in that Google seems to try hard - it's just that I couldn't be ar.. - erm - bothered to re

I really don't feel the pressure yet. The article is certainly right in that Google seems to try hard - it's just that I couldn't be ar.. - erm - bothered to resurrect my dormant, blocked ('real name..') G+ account. What do I lose, even at this point? - Youtube comments? That medium is 'watch only' for a long time already. Reading the comments hurts and was never funny or interesting. Writing comments didn't even cross my mind unless it's 4am and I had a beer or two too many. - "Play" store reviews: That thing went basically into the direction of Youtube and was full of people that had no clue but liked to post stuff. (Before anyone claims that G+ will make this better and so-called "real names" will fix that: Yeah, right. See HN. Twitter. Every other forum under the sun. I don't buy it) Hangouts might be cool, but I couldn't care less about hangouts without people to hang out with. Since I never really joined G+ yet, this is a chicken and egg problem (public hangouts? Naah, not for me, I prefer text over video for most content). No G+ account, no G+ contacts, no need for that feature, period. The only one time I felt I'm missing out was when my local Ingress resistance started organizing raids on G+. I'm mostly kidding, of course. So, back to the point of the article: I see that they are trying really, really hard to sell G+ to the masses and integrate it everywhere. What I'd like to understand is: Do others feel that it works? That there really is 'no avoiding' G+? I disagree.