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Comment by BruceIV | Hacker News Reader

Yeah ... speaking of "social spam" does anyone else get a "make new friends on Google+" page about 10% of the times you try to go to plus.google.com ? The persistent annoyance of that page was a major reason I went back to Facebook from G+, and now just use it as a Skype replacement.

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They ask me to upload a photo of myself 100% of the time I visit the front page of google+. I actively avoid it now.

I honestly thought from the title that the post would be a mea culpa for just that.

More than 10% of the time on facebook, I get a "try out these new games your friends are playing" (even though I've rarely played games on facebook), which takes up roughly the same amount of space as the google+ one does.

What are you talking about?

You've clearly never seen the google ones.

It's a GIGANTIC POPUP full of Click here! Join now! Follow ME! (Or like today, a new full page of Do Not Want: "Never miss another post Get notifications whenever important people in your life share something new on Google+" <-- how about you just let me into the site ok? Come on...)

Facebook is spammy, but G+ is just beyond a joke.

This G+ one fills the entire screen, and you have to find and click the "no thank you get out of my face please" button to get to the social feed; if you want to check that multiple times a day (like is typical Facebook usage), it gets to be a major source of friction, which Google usually hacks out with an axe anywhere they possibly can ...

I find it annoying that I can't even browse someone else's G+ page when logged in; I have to log out first.

I got that so often I wrote a Greasemonkey script to retry the URL if I got that page.

Everything they do lately seems designed to trick you into doing something, signing for a Google service, joining G+, clicking an ad by mistake, downloading Chrome ...