Which is a different sort of thing, asks you to hand out a lot more data about yourself, is of questionable use and - cannot be used for quite a number of people I know, me included (I'm one of the 'Hey, don't use anything but your full name or we'll ban you' victims, with no way to use that product ever again without begging, neeling, bending over and first finding someone that resembles support anyway - if I would like to in the first place).

So, the feature's gone.

... which is exactly the problem some / many ? people have with Google these days. You are forced to use + for features that had been stand-alone.

Two years from now we'll be griping that Google Maps is only available to Google+ users...