A Pun About Google Plus and The Circles of Hell
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!
So I asked a simple question - what do you want to hear from me - and got a staggering response.
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.
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Alex Garcia says:
Pedant says:
I decide who I want to speak to on a particular topic.
You can ask me to remove you from that circle if you like, but that's going to mean you miss out on everything else I send to that circle.
Fundamentally, I think, this is the difference between 'a list of friends I believe will be interested' and 'a soapbox that I can shout from' - I think most people believed Facebook would be the former whereas its the latter, and vice versa for Google+
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