Agreed on overlaps. Circles are essentially tags/labels with a nicer UI. I wonder why tags are the chosen solution for _every_ classification task these days. T

Agreed on overlaps. Circles are essentially tags/labels with a nicer UI. I wonder why tags are the chosen solution for _every_ classification task these days. They're great for information retrieval because they easily let you widen or narrow the scope of what you're looking for. But defining data permissions? Not so much. It feels like designers avoid hierarchal UI paradigms because they're old, but automated inheritance would've been nice on Google+.