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You're right, the Google drag-and-drop thing works pretty well and is quite innovative. That's certainly a direct way for them to mitigate the circle-creation p

by garry 15y ago

You're right, the Google drag-and-drop thing works pretty well and is quite innovative. That's certainly a direct way for them to mitigate the circle-creation problem. Arguably that's actually a critical piece of making Google+ work even though Circles is an n^2 operation.

51Cards 15y ago
I don't disagree that setup is a bit more work, but I think the pay-off for the individual user is very high. On top of that I expect you'll see Google introducing "Groups" as well very soon... public subscription groups that work better for a "Follow my company" type of thing. Not sure how they will implement that but I do think it is also a needed structure. Personally though I would take the Circles concept even as it stands now any day over Facebook's method of social management. I've already found myself sharing far more on G+ (despite the fact only a small part of my social graph is there yet) just because I'm not worried that Aunt Mabel will find this offensive, or I'll have to field questions from Uncle Earl about what that tech link meant.
Terretta 15y ago
EDIT: Derp, I'd read "n^2" as "n^n" both in a comment above and here, and even typed "n^2" while thinking it said "n^n". Sorry, garry. --- Even if you're making a circle for every person, and putting every person in every circle, it's not n^n, it's just n * n. 75×75 = 5,625 75^75 = 4.26 × 10^140 But I don't see why you'd make a circle for every person, when you can add arbitrary individuals to Post or Share permissions.
- agscala 15y ago
  n^2 is the same as n*n.
  - Terretta 15y ago
    Heh, no kidding. I thought I saw one thing while my fingers typed what was actually there. Hate it when that happens.
  - btilly 15y ago
    Except that in many programming languages, ^ means xor, so they do very different things. As a result in programming discussions I use n2 instead of n^2 to avoid the possibility of confusion if someone tries to cut and paste formulas into code.

by garry 15y ago

51Cards 15y ago

I don't disagree that setup is a bit more work, but I think the pay-off for the individual user is very high. On top of that I expect you'll see Google introducing "Groups" as well very soon... public subscription groups that work better for a "Follow my company" type of thing. Not sure how they will implement that but I do think it is also a needed structure. Personally though I would take the Circles concept even as it stands now any day over Facebook's method of social management. I've already found myself sharing far more on G+ (despite the fact only a small part of my social graph is there yet) just because I'm not worried that Aunt Mabel will find this offensive, or I'll have to field questions from Uncle Earl about what that tech link meant.

Terretta 15y ago

EDIT: Derp, I'd read "n^2" as "n^n" both in a comment above and here, and even typed "n^2" while thinking it said "n^n". Sorry, garry. --- Even if you're making a circle for every person, and putting every person in every circle, it's not n^n, it's just n * n. 75×75 = 5,625 75^75 = 4.26 × 10^140 But I don't see why you'd make a circle for every person, when you can add arbitrary individuals to Post or Share permissions.

agscala 15y ago
n^2 is the same as n*n.
- Terretta 15y ago
  Heh, no kidding. I thought I saw one thing while my fingers typed what was actually there. Hate it when that happens.
- btilly 15y ago
  Except that in many programming languages, ^ means xor, so they do very different things. As a result in programming discussions I use n2 instead of n^2 to avoid the possibility of confusion if someone tries to cut and paste formulas into code.