Visual Guide to Circles in Google+ by @ross
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Google+ circles allow users to categorize people into private lists for customized sharing, distinguishing them from public groups. This asymmetric sharing model enables privacy and control over who sees content, as opposed to platforms like Facebook, which operate on symmetric sharing. The document highlights the benefits and drawbacks of this system, emphasizing user management and connection options.
Visual Guide to Circles in Google+ by @ross
- 1. A visual guide to Circles in Google + By Ross Mayfield
- 2. Circles in are confusing, but are at the core of what Google Plus can do for you By Ross Mayfield
- 3. Google Plus Circles are lists of people
- 4. You can make lots of circles to list your people
- 5. You can give your Google Circles names or lables
- 6. The names you give your circles are private, nobody can see how you label them
- 7. A circle is not a group • Groups have membership, can be public or private and discoverable • Note how you can’t learn from the circles other people create • Google this: Ridiculously Easy Group Forming and Reed’s Law
- 8. Facebook is symmetric sharing, based on confirmed Jes
- 9. TwiKer sharing is based on asymmetric follow
- 10. Google Plus’s Circles are Asymmetric Sharing
- 11. Google Plus lets you share publicly, extended or limited to your circles
- 12. What you see in your stream starts with people you share with and they share back. You can see menJons. Incomping is everyone who shares with you
- 13. You only see the comments in threads that someone is enricled with you started
- 14. Good things about asymmetric sharing in Google Plus’s Circles: privacy, management, version your profile, disable reshare, latent connecJon
- 15. Minuses of Asymmetric Sharing