Shame, the single anti-feature that prevents me from joining is still in place:<p>&gt;Join Google+ by creating your public profile<p>I don&#x27;t want a Public Profile. I don&#x27;t need my gmail account to have a public profile. I don&#x27;t need search engines, randos, nobodies, everybody to have access to my profile.<p>Why does Google mandate Public Profiles? I don&#x27;t understand. Facebook does not mandate Public profiles (if you visit my Facebook page, it says 404 error page does not exist unless you are logged in and within friend of a friend distance to me).<p>One day Google will allow me to be apart of their network without mandating that I provide the public internet a profile.<p>And yes, I realize that aspects on the public profile can be manually disabled (it takes some 100-120 clicks to turn off every feature, one by one, even though the page itself remains public including your image and name).