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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by microtherion on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:22PM (#18171440)
> Some things I'd share with FAMILY, some things I'd share with EVERYBODY, some things I'd share with MY QUILTING GROUP.

But if you're truly disciplined about this, you never learn that your second cousin is interested in quilting too.

And in many scenarios, there is little reward to being disciplined; unless you're into rather transgressive quilting, you'll probably share your quilting projects with everyone.

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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by Double_a_92 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @03:33AM (#18173987)
There is nothing stopping you from sharing things you are proud of with you family circle. But technical discussions about quilting don't need to eventually end up on a random friends feed.
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Re:Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers by mcv on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:44AM (#18174783)
Google+ also implemented the opposite: you share to your Quilting collection, and everybody who follows you can choose whether to follow that collection or not.

The combination of circles and collections is very powerful, though the way G+ implemented it, they do overlap a bit, and don't entirely play well together. Slightly more flexible collections would help a lot.

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