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I don't know, but the whole Circles things was overcomplicated and average users didn't bother to put their followers into different circles, I am not sure how

I don't know, but the whole Circles things was overcomplicated and average users didn't bother to put their followers into different circles, I am not sure how they thought this would work.

skybrian 8y ago
Well, that's true. But being able to follow people (like on Twitter, not like friending on Facebook) is nice. As is not having character limits.
ocdtrekkie 8y ago
Circles was fantastic, and continues to be what I wish for in a lot of other networks. Mainly because there are people I follow loosely (don't mind seeing the occasional update from), and people I follow religiously (because I know them personally or care about every single thing they say). I used to maintain really primarily two feeds. One I cared to always read all the time, and one I'd browse when I was bored. G+ mostly mitigated the frustration of it for people who didn't care years ago: You can just click follow and it puts them in a default following circle.
- jacquesm 8y ago
  Circles is great for geeks who like to have such fine-grained control over their lives, both online and offline. For the rest of the world it doesn't really matter, and even if it does it is too difficult to set up and maintain. A company called Hyves in the Netherlands did much the same thing (but with a fairly crappy UI) long before Google+ came along. That fell to FB as well.
ergothus 8y ago
Perhaps I'm not average, but I certainly liked the ideas of separating my posts to family, close-friends, friendly-friends, and work-friends! Not because of secrecy, but just to be relevant/inoffensive. Not to mention people who DO have parts of their life they want to have, but also have separate. If a student wants to come out of the closet among close friends and discuss things openly without having that in their parents/grandparents/that one uncle's face, that seems like a pretty solid idea. The only reason I didn't use it on G+ is that no one outside of my RPG circles was on it in the first place.
izacus 8y ago
Are you seriously implying that concept of groups of people is too complicated for most human beings? O.o
- Izkata 8y ago
  I believe they're saying the interface was bad, not that the concept was hard. Friend lists are used all the time on Facebook.

I don't know, but the whole Circles things was overcomplicated and average users didn't bother to put their followers into different circles, I am not sure how they thought this would work.

skybrian 8y ago

Well, that's true. But being able to follow people (like on Twitter, not like friending on Facebook) is nice. As is not having character limits.

ocdtrekkie 8y ago

Circles was fantastic, and continues to be what I wish for in a lot of other networks. Mainly because there are people I follow loosely (don't mind seeing the occasional update from), and people I follow religiously (because I know them personally or care about every single thing they say). I used to maintain really primarily two feeds. One I cared to always read all the time, and one I'd browse when I was bored. G+ mostly mitigated the frustration of it for people who didn't care years ago: You can just click follow and it puts them in a default following circle.

jacquesm 8y ago
Circles is great for geeks who like to have such fine-grained control over their lives, both online and offline. For the rest of the world it doesn't really matter, and even if it does it is too difficult to set up and maintain. A company called Hyves in the Netherlands did much the same thing (but with a fairly crappy UI) long before Google+ came along. That fell to FB as well.

ergothus 8y ago

Perhaps I'm not average, but I certainly liked the ideas of separating my posts to family, close-friends, friendly-friends, and work-friends! Not because of secrecy, but just to be relevant/inoffensive. Not to mention people who DO have parts of their life they want to have, but also have separate. If a student wants to come out of the closet among close friends and discuss things openly without having that in their parents/grandparents/that one uncle's face, that seems like a pretty solid idea. The only reason I didn't use it on G+ is that no one outside of my RPG circles was on it in the first place.

izacus 8y ago

Are you seriously implying that concept of groups of people is too complicated for most human beings? O.o

Izkata 8y ago
I believe they're saying the interface was bad, not that the concept was hard. Friend lists are used all the time on Facebook.