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I think fine-tuning levels of intimacy and deciding which contexts different people should be included and excluded in is something that everyone does a little
by dkarl 15y ago
I think fine-tuning levels of intimacy and deciding which contexts different people should be included and excluded in is something that everyone does a little bit and some people spend much of their waking lives obsessing over. It will feel natural to invest time and effort into managing their Circles in Google. You can think of it as something to do with your hands while you think about your social relationships, or as a ceremonial way to mark changes in your social graph.
- fab13n 15y agoI'm sure 90% of G+ers will do it and enjoy it. My point was only that figuring out how to organize your graph into circles shouldn't have to be the first thing you've to do before discovering G+. This question (how to organize one's social graph, even roughly) is not trivial at all; if the very first thing G+ demands from you is to figure out a very personal and non-trivial question, it will negatively affect people's perception of the product. Think of how annoying it is to enter a serial number when installing a new software: it's not a big deal, it's not difficult, and you'll hopefully only do it once. However, that's your software bugging you before your first real contact, and before it earned your respect. Highly irritating for many people. We want our first contact with stuff to start by some instant gratification.