Google confirmed to the New York Times that signing up to Google + is not about using their social network.

The reason is that once you sign up for Plus, it becomes your account for all Google products, from Gmail to YouTube to maps, so Google sees who you are and what you do across its services, even if you never once return to their social network.

Thanks to Plus, Google knows about people’s friendships on Gmail, the places they go on maps and how they spend their time on the more than two million websites in Google’s ad network. And it is gathering this information even though relatively few people use Plus as their social network.

So how do you feel about giving all this data to Google? And do you use the social network?

Personally, I’m not too fussed as I can’t see what options you have other than never use the Internet.