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> So I add him. There's your problem. Why on Earth are you adding people that you don't know at all? I'd like to see you back up your "So most people just ad
by humbledrone 15y ago
> So I add him.
There's your problem. Why on Earth are you adding people that you don't know at all? I'd like to see you back up your "So most people just add them" statement with hard evidence. I for one, do not "just add" people just because they circled me. I first check to see if they are someone I care about at all.
- alecco 15y agoI am not. Please read, please be a bit more civil. Also, I clarified further on other replies. Thank you.
- jonknee 15y agoThen you must be friends with "online media sociopaths". The solution is simple, don't add people you don't want to be updated about.
- isnotchicago 15y agoThis isn't quite "hard evidence", but as an...experiment...a few weeks ago, I added every single person Google recommended, a total of 1118. Of those, 65 complete strangers have added me back, which is 5.8%. This percentage is not "most", "many", or even "some". It is irksome to see the red notification for no good reason, but I do not think people really feel compelled to add random people to their circles.
- humbledrone 15y agoHah! That's awesome that you did that experiment. Very interesting.
- yariang 15y agoOut of curiosity, how long did it take to add 1118 people by hand?
- isnotchicago 15y agoNot long at all, actually. The first time I added people, Google was recommending around 600 users. So I just selected all, the dropped them into a new circle. Same process to get the rest of the remainders over the next few days. Now, Google shows maybe 100 or so recommended users, which is below my threshold of "fun number of people to add at one time". I say "maybe 100" because, interestingly, Google+ no longer shows the number of recommended users. I wonder if they removed this feature because of visual clutter, or were finding a lot of people abusing the feature like I did.