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>It seems to me that the only legitimate use of circles is with respect to people you are sharing with that you know in real life. If you want to talk to total
by Leynos 15y ago
>It seems to me that the only legitimate use of circles is with respect to people you are sharing with that you know in real life. If you want to talk to total strangers, then you want to be pseudonymous but you also have almost no reason to not post publicly.
The typical usecase for circles I've seen (aside from the obvious of protecting privacy) is when someone has multiple interests, not all of which any given contact will find interesting. For example, a person might have a foodies circle, a roleplaying circle, an anime circle, etc.
And many of the people who have circled me in this way I do not know IRL.
(Although my own take on this is that this is probably not an optimal use of circles, it has none the less sprung up as a fairly common application.)
- waqf 15y agoUnfortunately G+ circles are not a good fit for the use case you describe, because whether you are permitted to see a post (which certainly should be at the author's discretion) is different from whether you are interested enough to see it in your stream (which should be at yours, but G+ can't handle that).
- Leynos 15y agoGenerally, what someone will do is make a public post with their list of interest based circles, then ask people to reply stating which they'd like to be in. I agree though, this does tend to be rather awkward.