Time to ditch flickr.
Some go to Tumblr but it is more messy that Flickr as it is not dedicated to pictures. And it is still Yahoo.
Facebook is a NOGO because the compression is awful.
Flickr is the perfect match for amateur photographers without ambition ;).
Google+ share the quota with gmail. Gmail currently offers 7 or more free GB. Additional GBs are cheap (although they have new price structure now.)
Also pictures 2048px (*) or smaller doesn't count towards the quota (and you can easily, in g+ settings on phone, choose to only upload photos resized to that size if you don't want to pay for extra storage.)
Unrelated to your original comment, but as a British person when I see the use of "Excuse me?" it seems very coarse and sometimes can appear rude.
It is interesting, because my wife (who isn't British and English is her second language) uses this often (as do her friends) and sometimes it appears out of place and is misread as rude (which she is not usually trying to be).
I'm not complaining or dissing you at all, I find these small linguistic nuances very interesting :)
You heard them just fine, but you don't like what they said, so you exagerrate your reaction and pretend they're an idiot.
Of course, it depends on the tone of your voice as well, so everything comes across in the worst possible way when all you can see is the words :)
(Brit here as well)
Google+:
1) Google+ is not a Photo community. Thus, I can have no expectation of fitness for purpose. 2) It does indeed share the quota with Gmail. 3) 7GB is also ridiculously low as a quota for any larger pictures. Thats 3500 pictures compressed, if each takes 2 MB. Thats easily reachable even for amateurs. Also, the quota is _shared_, clogging my _email account_, if I have one. 4) I'd like to upload originals. A Canon EOS 350, released more than 5 years ago in the consumer space, makes pictures far larger then 2048x2048px.
Picasa, which is Googles Photo community:
1) Has a 1GB limit. 2) Is not a necessarily compelling app, more an G+ attachment nowadays.
Finally people are taking photos for themselves and sharing the majority of them with the people who can appreciate them (aka friends and family).