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It wasn't so much circles as everything else. Actually circles in themselves felt botched and I stopped using them. The good things about Google + was: - hig
by eitland 5y ago
It wasn't so much circles as everything else.
Actually circles in themselves felt botched and I stopped using them.
The good things about Google + was:
- high signal to noise ratio
- you could follow what people wrote about programming or photography without following what they wrote in their local language about local politics (i.e. think if you could follow just @eitland#programming on twitter instead of getting everything I wrote)
- beautiful reading experience
- WesleyJohnson 5y agoI don't remember how this worked. Was the author in charge of tagging things they wrote, were posts categorized in some sort of folder structure?
- jaredsohn 5y agoThe author indicates who they want to share each post with. Facebook came up with Friend Lists a little later which are similar. https://jessicavitak.com/2011/09/01/facebooks-circles-how-to-create-and-use-the-friend-list-feature/ https://jessicavitak.com/2011/09/01/facebooks-circles-how-to...
- Izkata 5y ago> Meanwhile, I grumbled (to myself and on Twitter and probably to anyone who was willing to listen to my grumbling) about the fact that Facebook had, in fact, rolled out this feature at least two years prior, and probably much earlier than that. Facebook had it first, not google+ circles. I was using it something like 2008-2010 during college, to keep some posts friends-only and hidden from family.
- jaredsohn 5y agoThanks; vaguely remember that. I think Facebook added some UX to emphasize it more in response to Google Plus