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Might wanna rethink that. Seriously.
I can think of two situations that I've encountered specifically.
A) The limit of circling is 5000 people.
When you're bumping up against that limit, you start uncircling people – sometimes that's done by deleting a whole circle that's not used very much. If you happened to be in (only) that one circle, you can be herd-uncircled. The person doing the uncircling might later notice, and go HAY, I DID NOT MEAN THAT GUY! I LIEK THAT ONE! and recircle you.
*To which your response is to block.*
B) People get uncircled because Google Plus Has Bugs. (OH, HAI DERE, +Mel Pence – Did you know that I recircled you, and I have no idea how you, one of my favorite posters, came to be uncircled?)
So when people notice you got uncircled, they recircle you.
*To which your response is to block*
Not. Cool.
Alvin Stearns – Google+ – After more than a year on Plus I know I saw some of these…
After more than a year on Plus I know I saw some of these names as people who have circled me before . . . And I don’t ever arbitrarily un-circle people,…
This seems very retrograde. Like what kids do with thousands of "friends" on Facebook or when I was young and always over-indulged in many things.
How do you have time to parse, read, reply to a tenth of that size of a social network?
+Jeremy Stratton I sort the people that I circle with a method in my profile.
The more you interact with me, the smaller (tighter knit) a circle you wind up in.
So, when I have a busy day, I may only have time to read the circle that has my 11 favorite people in it (called 1. so it sorts to the top of the list on mobile)
Other days, I have more time, and read bigger circles.
Sometimes I just let the stream run on a second monitor, and I read and comment on the random things that float by, much like Twitter.
I return +1's to people who +1 my stuff.
I comment on people's posts who have commented on mine.
I reshare people's posts who have…OK, who am I kidding. I reshare LIBERALLY… I'm more likely to reshare something good than I am to +1 it.
Interesting. I have started posting and sharing much more often on G+, but it seems a lot of work and file-managing to move all those people around and have all those circles.
I've noticed that I created 4 initially, then went to almost 8 and I've kind of leveled off at that amount of circles. Most people I continue to add fit into that, but I have noticed one circle getting huge and I get weary thinking about breaking it up.
+Jeremy Stratton I guess my question to you is would you rather have all of your people grouped in one big mixed bag?
That's basically how Facebook is, which in many circumstances, is just plain horrible. I cite the many Failbook incidences where someone does something or says something that is ultimately seen by everyone.
I would much rather take the time and state 'these are my bffs who I trust', these are the new people I've met, these are the new people I've met who live in Denver/Colorado.
No offense, but it sounds like you don't want to really work at social media. That to me sounds like you don't want to make sure your privacy settings are set or you don't want to meet people outside of the people you know.
Which, I guess is fine, but there's many thoughts and opinions out there, not to mention people, that you miss by not taking the time effort in actually finding all of that out.
+Regina Woodard I'm not sure. Right now, I've created up to 8 circles, over time, but haven't found a need for it, other than more recently thinking about breaking up my largest(for better management).
But I wouldn't be breaking that huge circle up because it adds new, G+ usability, but, rather, old-fashioned "take care of the clutter". And then I'm not sure how to do that, because it's a pretty solid circle with a pretty straightforward subject.
Breaking it up could actually make it a bit more of a hassle.
It feels a bit like taking "Jazz" and then breaking that up into "West Coast Jazz", "East Coast Jazz", "Southern smooth-jazz" etc…
I guess it's par for the course, but I don't relish the idea of figuring out then creating all those extra circles, and then sifting through the core circle of people to decide who goes where.
Yeah, I totally get you about the "These are my BBFs" and all that.
I do that to. I have a family circle and a friends circle. I even have an acquaintances circle, but there's really only so many that anyone would actually fill those circles up with.
I capped out mine many months ago at much less than 100.
+Jeremy Stratton I like the jazz analogy and think that kinda fits here, but more in the terms that you can split up jazz. For instance, I love big band jazz, but I'm not a fan of free form or bebop (despite being a trumpet player, I actually don't like Miles Davis).
I think it comes down to just how many people do you have on G+? Friends and family should be easy to filter, but I can see how new people could be a bit harder. Just do what +Jonathon Barton does, which is something I've done –
Make a G+ New People circle and when you get to know them, put them in a circle for New Online Friends or something.
Oh, I just got the above, so my last thing is a bit redundant. :
+Regina Woodard No no. You weren't really redundant. I liked the way you explained it.
I think part of it is me just whining.
There just seems to be a serious overload meter for me that fills up fast.
Most of my circles are small-ish(under 100 in each), while my biggest is just under 300(and that's the one I'm debating on breaking up).
That's probably not even a drop in a bucket for many to manage, but it is for me. 😛
So I have 8 circles and already I can't "keep up" and I feel I use G+ a lot.
Most times I only look at posts from my largest circle and that eats up all my time.
Oh, I got ya! Too many people and not enough time, right? 😀 Breaking up the 300 circle might need to be done, but I think over all you just need to sit down and go through everyone.
I'm in a lot of people's circle (over 1000 at this point) and I havne't had the chance to sit down and say, "these are interesting people that I want to add back". It's time management, which does need to be set aside. As much as I try to get on here or update my blog or hell, my website, I fall short cause time gets away from me.
Happens to everyone. I just think you need to set up a time (day off of course) and say, I am devoting an hour (or more) to straightening out my circles and seeing who goes and who stays. The good thing about G+ is, even if you remove people who are following, they won't know you aren't following them anymore (which is better than FB's just drop friends approach)