A Pun About Google Plus and The Circles of Hell – Terence Eden’s Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog Regular nonsense about tech and its effects 🙃 Fri, 02 Jul 2021 06:33:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/cropped-avatar-32x32.jpeg A Pun About Google Plus and The Circles of Hell – Terence Eden’s Blog https://shkspr.mobi/blog 32 32 <![CDATA[A Pun About Google Plus and The Circles of Hell]]> https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/07/a-pun-about-google-plu-and-the-circles-of-hell/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2011/07/a-pun-about-google-plu-and-the-circles-of-hell/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:54:40 +0000 http://shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=4245 Google Plus has a serious flaw. It's summed up in this question:

Why are you following me?

I know who I want to share my "I hate my job" posts, and "Oh, my cat is so cute" pictures - but I talk about a wide range of things, not all of which you'll be interested in.

At the moment, I've got nearly 150 people following me - and I don't know which circle to put them in!

Google Plus Circles

So I asked a simple question - what do you want to hear from me - and got a staggering response. Google Plus Which Circles

This is something Nik Butler and I have discussed.

Google needs to let people choose which circles to follow.

I imagine a UI which allows me to set a circle as private ("Work", "Family", "Political ranting") and set some circles as public ("Kitten pictures", "Industry News", "Political thoughts").

When you follow me, you can say "I hate kittens, but I love politics - I'll follow one circle and ignore the others."

At the moment, I don't have the time to categorise 200 people into what I think they're interested. And they don't want to be bombarded with QR codes when all they really want is LOLCATS.

So, come on Google, sort it out - let people choose which circles they want to be in.

Please RT!

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