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Maybe they could implement some sort of "Smart Circles" or "Nested Circles". That could solve the author's "Work Friends" issue.
by nanoanderson 15y ago
Maybe 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).