Even though I don't have any particular privacy concerns with Google+, I'm just fed up with Google abandoning their strengths to basically chase after Facebook and impotently ram G+ down everyone's throats.<p>Google has great services, Gmail and Calendar are great, Android is a great mobile platform, and of course there are dozens of other amazing services. They've done some important work to unify the logins, but then they dilute the whole thing by making a second-rate Facebook clone and hoping everyone will flock to it.<p>Meanwhile though people are realizing that none of these companies really give a shit about your privacy, and even if they do, they don't care enough to really protect it, so inevitably trust will be eroded over time as Facebook, Google and their younger brethren strip-mine the naive goodwill of consumers in search of the new shiny. You already see teenagers abandoning Facebook because it doesn't have the privacy they want (everyone and their mother's mother is on there). I think this trend will accelerate over the next decade and we'll look back and laugh at the pipe-dreams of these companies thinking that they could consolidate and own the whole social graph.<p>The irony is Google is much better positioned for this future than Facebook is. Let them have unified accounts, let them datamine everything, just stop worshipping at the alter of Zuckerberg like he's the second coming of Steve Jobs.