I see no "send email" button, so I guess it's not enabled for me. Being able to send you a direct message does not require you to reveal your identity.
they probably do not have any urgent plans to implement a separate messaging service on top of G+ when they see GMail as a natural replacement.
That's why I don't see why Gmail's not already embedded in G+. But as you said, maybe it's just something which is not enabled for me yet. If it is enabled for you, how does the interface work? Does it pop up a new Gmail window? Does the receiver get an email or G+ notification?
Switch to Profile view, click Edit Profile, and click the (probably shaded/barely visible) "Send an email" button underneath your profile picture. There are a number of privacy options here, although, notably, "anybody on the web" still means "anybody with a Google profile" (or at least I couldn't get it to work unless I was logged in).
Senders see a popup window and indeed G+ does not reveal your e-mail address, which is as it should be. Receivers get an e-mail entitled something like "Message via your Google Profile" with the sender's Gmail account's from name/address.
My comment on G+ encouraging the use of your "real" identity was just meant to highlight that apparently Twitter is the outlier as far as social networking sites go, with regard to whether you can have a completely anonymous (or pseudonymous) conversation via PM. With G+, it seems clear they just want you to use GMail.
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I see no "send email" button, so I guess it's not enabled for me. Being able to send you a direct message does not require you to reveal your identity.
they probably do not have any urgent plans to implement a separate messaging service on top of G+ when they see GMail as a natural replacement.
That's why I don't see why Gmail's not already embedded in G+. But as you said, maybe it's just something which is not enabled for me yet. If it is enabled for you, how does the interface work? Does it pop up a new Gmail window? Does the receiver get an email or G+ notification?
Switch to Profile view, click Edit Profile, and click the (probably shaded/barely visible) "Send an email" button underneath your profile picture. There are a number of privacy options here, although, notably, "anybody on the web" still means "anybody with a Google profile" (or at least I couldn't get it to work unless I was logged in).
Senders see a popup window and indeed G+ does not reveal your e-mail address, which is as it should be. Receivers get an e-mail entitled something like "Message via your Google Profile" with the sender's Gmail account's from name/address.
My comment on G+ encouraging the use of your "real" identity was just meant to highlight that apparently Twitter is the outlier as far as social networking sites go, with regard to whether you can have a completely anonymous (or pseudonymous) conversation via PM. With G+, it seems clear they just want you to use GMail.