FleshEatingZipper says: "So…Digging around on Google+ reveals some interesting information. It seems that the fine folks at Google intend our profiles to be left public and, if we don’t want to be out in the public, they’ll kick us the hell out."
Well the only things required are your name and gender. The rest is optional, so people are choosing to show more information. I think this shows users to be more conscious about what info they put out there.
Wu-wu-wait...what?!