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I feel that it's primarily because the general public views what they do on Google services as private: searches and email.

The thought of somehow mixing up their private life with social media is just too scary. What if the photos I take on my phone appear in my feed somewhere and I don't realize it for 3 months?

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That's interesting. I'm used to google knowing a lot of information about me (android phone and I primarily use google apps). You're right though, it's not public information. Even google docs, the sharing permissions are really well handled. None of their products are orientated toward outward sharing bar Google+.

The note about Google Drive... for the first while, it was really easy to inadvertently share your stuff publicly. It's gotten markedly better nowadays, though.

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