Also, showing the +1 button on comments only on hover makes it much less likely that I'm going to click on them. Why not just show them all the time?
On the other hand, I could conceivably see a need to converse pseudonymously via the service, but being that G+ has taken the FB-like approach that urges users to create profiles that mirror their identity "as you are known to others," they probably do not have any urgent plans to implement a separate messaging service on top of G+ when they see GMail as a natural replacement.
they probably do not have any urgent plans to implement a separate messaging service on top of G+ when they see GMail as a natural replacement.
That's why I don't see why Gmail's not already embedded in G+. But as you said, maybe it's just something which is not enabled for me yet. If it is enabled for you, how does the interface work? Does it pop up a new Gmail window? Does the receiver get an email or G+ notification?
Senders see a popup window and indeed G+ does not reveal your e-mail address, which is as it should be. Receivers get an e-mail entitled something like "Message via your Google Profile" with the sender's Gmail account's from name/address.
My comment on G+ encouraging the use of your "real" identity was just meant to highlight that apparently Twitter is the outlier as far as social networking sites go, with regard to whether you can have a completely anonymous (or pseudonymous) conversation via PM. With G+, it seems clear they just want you to use GMail.