Unless you like having half of your screen unused, there is clearly something that Google needs to fix soon. Until then however, you don't have to suffer any more - at least if you're using Chrome. Thanks to this GExtend extension, that makes a slight alteration to Google+ CSS settings, you can have your Google+ using up the entire width of your screen.
There are many quite amusing jokes about the whitespace on Google plus tagged #usesforwhitespace.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Google announced that they are adding new features that will take occupy the position where the whitespace currently is. The designers of the extension you linked mentioned this:
"Optimizes G+ for big screens
This is a temporary fix for the recently updated Google+ Design. This extension will modify the loaded CSS to scale the content' according to the width of your screen. It will become obsolete as soon as the Google+ Team releases new content to fill the whitespace."