| When G+ was announced I realised the implications were I to do anything on the social side that risked the account... loss of access to email, calendar, documents, etc that go back more than a decade. I made a choice that day and I still stick to it: I split my Google identity. My original Gmail account is still in use and I use that for anything social, for any settings and preferences... i.e. the non-essential stuff: Google+, Chrome Sync, Android Play Store, and Google Currents. A Google Apps account deals with anything that I care to keep and is on my private domain: Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, and Drive. I then used sync control in Android to turn off everything that each account won't use. And in Manage Domain on the Google Apps I disabled G+ and anything social. For me it's a risk limitation exercise. Should Google lock my Gmail, I lose things I don't care about. I keep backups (Gmail offline + Grive) of my Google Apps domain, and should that get locked I can change the DNS, setup my own email and restore the backup via IMAP. I get to benefit from Google services without a large exposure to risk should something happen. |