answer:I hate it. I don’t use Google+, and will likely distance myself from YouTube because of this. I have a YouTube account – I don’t want it linked to my Google+ account. I don’t want to risk comments I make on YouTube carrying over into my Google+ circles, and vice versa. Integration across social networks is the last thing I want to be forced into. The only positive effect it might have is to limit people’s access to prior comments… which means they might be less likely to disintegrate into mean-spirited chaos. I remember well all the buzz about Gmail when Google was still relatively small; it seemed like the smartest thing ever, and was about to solve all our problems with the existing frontrunners. It would be nice to start hearing that buzz about a new product now.