@Zecc said:
But that's the thing. I chose to use my YouTube name when accessing YouTube while signed into my main Gmail account, all the time. And I do have an empty G+ account associated with that account.
Yeah, that stopped working. Nowadays, no matter whether or not you choose to use your YouTube name or your Google name, you'll still get a Google+ profile. I fell for it once. I managed to delete the Google+ profile. Now, everything that helps is to press the X in the upper right corner of the dialog. No, I don't think that's a nice thing of Google to do. In fact, WHAT THE FUCK GOOGLE, LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE! I FUCKING DON'T FUCKING WANT A FUCKING GOOGLE+ PROFILE! FUCK OFF!
About the Facebook one, I'm not sure how it works there because I'm not using Facebook, personally.