This is absolutely horrendous --- how about you folks at google try making this an "option" rather than just randomly springing it on everyone.

 

If I wanted to have a facebook account or something substantially similar, I would already freaking have one.

 

Uggg, y'all would f*ck up free ice cream.  You had a perfectly good email service and then you go and screw it up with crap no one really wanted.