[joelrunyon]

Here's the full procedure.

Deleting my entire Google+ profile

Your Google+ profile will be deleted along with other services and data that depend on your Google+ profile.

What to do:

Sign in to Google+. Click on your full name or email address in the top-right corner of your screen. In the Account Management section, click Delete profile and remove related Google+ features. Select Delete your entire Google profile.

One question: with everything seemingly requiring a google+ account these days - what other services here do you end up getting rid of?

[RexRollman]

I think Google is trying to inflate its G+ numbers in order to seem competitive with Facebook, so its basically a dick-size contest with users getting caught in the middle.

[raverbashing]

This is a very accurate description

Of course, for the people that matter (especially advertisers) can see through it.

Some content producers are already moving away from YT, at the same time AdSense is the one that still pays the best.

[saraid216]

Since you seem to have insider information, can you tell us if this is actually a push from Larry Page or if it is from Vic Gundotra?

[raverbashing]

What inside information? I'm basing this on information from the outside, on people that monetize videos and content.

About your question, I would answer based on who's the boss of whom.

[skj]

I believe the GP was being ironic. Since, without insider information, your "accuracy" claim seems like jaded opinion.

[raverbashing]

Yeah, I forgot HN commenters want things with proof even when it's glaring obvious what's happening.

[rhizome]

But they have to do things to make them seem competitive with FB, because FB and G have a huge common denominator: NASDAQ.

[jzzskijj]

Your Google+ profile will be deleted along with other services and data that depend on your Google+ profile.

I wonder what would happen to my old Blogspot blog that has hundreds of entries. And photos in that blog, that were uploaded to Picasa through Blogspot before G+ even existed.

I can see that Blogspot album in G+, so it might be data associated with G+ and it would be deleted. We spent hundreds of hours writing and taking those pictures, so it would be a shame to have all that hard work deleted because of a vague what gets deleted description.