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Google Plus's Circles System May Not be Sustainable
- nanoanderson 15y agoMaybe they could implement some sort of "Smart Circles" or "Nested Circles". That could solve the author's "Work Friends" issue.
- zephjc 15y agoI noticed I started treating circles like iTunes playlists - I have a master "All Friends" (akin to my Music Library) circle, which is a dump for everyone who are friends (not family), then "RL Friends" and "Internet Friends". Thinking about it, I can dump the All Friends circle because its a catch-all, and if I wanted to post something to all my friends, I can just add RL Friends and Internet Friends. There are certainly places I want to have people in multiple circles (interest groups, etc) but catch-alls aren't it. Nested Circles seem like catch-all meta-groupings that create a more rigid structure (unless you could add a circle to more than one Circle Group, but this seems to be over-thinking the problem and could present an unwieldily UI). For Smart Circles, they use the example of a work relationship changing. It seems that renaming that circle to something else would work just as well, and creating a new Work circle with your new coworkers in it. Having G+ try and manage something that can be fluid and sometimes pretty arbitrary seems it could be messy and potentially embarrassing (someone ending up in a circle they shouldn't be in).
- zem 15y agothis is where i see a good developer ecosystem being valuable. i can well imagine third party circle-organisation tools springing up and exploring the ux space between them till a good, usable method evolves.