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..and you know what? I like text. I 'circled' a bunch of people from the numerous Hacker News communities on G+, and I see far too many pictures and videos in

..and you know what? I like text. I 'circled' a bunch of people from the numerous Hacker News communities on G+, and I see far too many pictures and videos in the feed. And mostly personal life stuff, like their pets, or lunch, or some trees or whatever. (This is also my current complaint with App.net, but that's a different story). I really wish there were a way to filter by post type (text and links only) in Google+, to bring it even one small step closer to replacing Reader.

mhb 14y ago
It would also be nice to be able to filter out videos in Picasa. Why do I want to be seeing those mixed in with my photos?
SkyMarshal 14y ago
This was my biggest problem with G+ and why I haven't used it since last year sometime. Facebook by comparison is a network of people you know irl, so you kinda care what random stuff they're up to. G+ on the other hand is more like long-form Twitter where you subscribe to people, whether you know them irl or not. Its network based more on shared interest than real life connection. But when people you've subscribed to because you're interested in what they have to say about programming start sharing their vacation pictures and other personal stuff, it can quickly fill up your news feed with noise. It would be really nice if G+ could implement tagging and filtering by tag, or some ML that learns what to suppress in your feed from whom, or something along those lines. Anything to enable people to continue posting whatever they want, but to allow their followers to selectively receive only the portion they're interested in.
DannoHung 14y ago
Hmm... maybe what they oughta let you do is filter out posts from people that go out to "Public". I don't want his public or her public or that circle's public, but if they post to a specific circle that I'm a part of, send it on.

mhb 14y ago

It would also be nice to be able to filter out videos in Picasa. Why do I want to be seeing those mixed in with my photos?

SkyMarshal 14y ago

This was my biggest problem with G+ and why I haven't used it since last year sometime. Facebook by comparison is a network of people you know irl, so you kinda care what random stuff they're up to. G+ on the other hand is more like long-form Twitter where you subscribe to people, whether you know them irl or not. Its network based more on shared interest than real life connection. But when people you've subscribed to because you're interested in what they have to say about programming start sharing their vacation pictures and other personal stuff, it can quickly fill up your news feed with noise. It would be really nice if G+ could implement tagging and filtering by tag, or some ML that learns what to suppress in your feed from whom, or something along those lines. Anything to enable people to continue posting whatever they want, but to allow their followers to selectively receive only the portion they're interested in.

DannoHung 14y ago

Hmm... maybe what they oughta let you do is filter out posts from people that go out to "Public". I don't want his public or her public or that circle's public, but if they post to a specific circle that I'm a part of, send it on.