Google+’s structure – specifically circles – allows for solutions to this problem that would feel completely natural. Everyone who uses Google+ also uses circle

Google+’s structure – specifically circles – allows for solutions to this problem that would feel completely natural. Everyone who uses Google+ also uses circles, it’s not tacked on and optional. Circles could become a powerful tool for filtering your stream (by, for example, allowing you to pick which circles appear in your stream by default) and it’s certainly also easy to imagine other options, e.g. the ability to disable notifications from certain circles. At the moment all your circles are displayed by default and you can’t, for example, select more than one circle at once to filter your stream. It’s either all circles or one circle. I can’t imagine that Google won’t add such options. The UI is a bit of a challenge – I’m certain they want to keep it simple and not add a few dozen checkboxes to the circles page – but certainly a solvable challenge. I’m not too worried about it but it’s certainly true that now is the time to complain about such shortcomings.