Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
by stef25 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:16PM
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Personally, I've got about half a dozen interests that I only want to share with people who find it relevant or interesting, like your example about tech/coding stuff. I don't share that either but I would if I could better control who it goes out to. This feature sounds great to me.
Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
by k-mcgrady on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:31PM
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That's exactly what I was getting at. And I think most people are in similar situations. But Google+ and Circles will only work right if all your friends use it. Otherwise it'll be just another network to update with specific content.
In other words my entire online life is compartmentalized. It makes sense for me to do this even though it can be tedious. Circles would make this a lot easier by the looks of things, giving me one place to post everything, simply choosing who sees what content.
Getting people to use Google+ when they already use Facebook and/or Twitter though is Google's biggest challenge.