Please tell me about G+ ? -- Thanks!

[houseboatonstyx]

Squeee flashback. Suddenly I'm thrilled all over again that I'm on a ... er, world wide web. Because here in the US it's midnight, not a good time to ask my USian sources -- but my friends on the other side of the world  are in daylight hours and awake, probably.

So -- what about G+ ? I've been avoiding it, but now Google seems to require me to join or they won't let me login to my Gmail account!   When I enter gmail.google.com, instead of just asking me for my email password, they say

One account. All of Google.

Sign in to continue to Gmail

I'm worried about my pseudonyms. I have several, each with its own Gmail address. And I do not want to give out my real name, location, etc.

Any clues?

ETA: Well, I'm logged into Gmail again, apparently having done something like what Oursin suggested in her comment. Whether accidentally or precognatively  I do not know.

Apparently having Gmail, had given me a "Google Account" already -- of a different sort than G+. So their screen's One Password to Rule Them All was not an assimilation into G+ or anything like that.

Comments

[oursin]

It is clunky, but this probably works for gmail as well as analytics: you log in and then you go away from that annoying page to analytics or gmail, and click on the access/go to button and if you are already logged in, it takes you there (though still fuming).

Plus even with the account I do have g+ with, it tries to elicit my phone no and other intrusive details.

[houseboatonstyx]

Thank you. I seem to have done something like that, by accident. Poking around Google's Help stuff, I saw a link to accounts.google.com. That brought up teh same scary password screen. I gave it my Gmail password and it opened
https://www.google.com/settings/personalinfo
which showed little info, and invited me to "Upgrade to G+"! Which was reassuring.

Then I tried gmail.google.com and it came right up as normal.