[dohertyjf]

I don't think that's the point. The point is that Google isn't differentiating between a business profile and a personal profile well.

[lawdawg]

Which is a UX problem, not a "Google attempting to drive me into yet another unwanted "social" network". You don't think it's in Google's best interest that channels create Google+ Pages rather than individual Google+ profiles?

[drill_sarge]

It is in Googles interest to have as many G+ profiles (aka potential userbase) as possible.

[andygates]

But they want each one to be tied to a single physical person. They actively dislike alts, which makes having a home profile and a work profile and $counterculture_of_choice profile or two awkward and annoying.