Google Plus may very well find that its Circle’s feature is the most interesting part of the entire platform. Google Plus will be the new social media platform that attempts to fill in the gaps that other social media platforms have either left out or have not created very well. Those who participate actively in social media have long complained that they need a way to segment their family relationships from their business relationships, and they also want to segment both of those relationships from close platonic relationships and romantic relationships. With frequent media spotlights on employees who have made errors in judgment that have cost them their jobs, people may have become more apt to not connect to others on Facebook. Google Plus and the Circles feature may just be the solution that social media users have been wanting.
Google Plus Facilitates All Types Of Relationships With The Circles Feature
What seems to be very attractive to potential new users of the Google Plus platform is that the Circles feature does not penalize individuals for reaching out to strangers, yet it still protects users from spam-like introductions. The same way that people in real life can choose when and how to interact, the Circles feature of Google Plus allows for the same kind of normal, compartmentalized interactions. A separate feature that is of great interest is Hangout, where strangers can safely meet and plan interactions both virtually and offline. It is assumed that a natural progression from Hangouts could be the Circles Feature. Hangouts can also be used with existing friends to create face to face video chats or to plan live meetings if users happen to be “hanging out” someplace where others might want to join them, like a bookstore or coffee shop. By promoting real, social activity, the applications seem endless.
For those who are interested in Google Plus, there is a demo of the new platform that includes a brief demo of the Circles feature. There are other demos as well. What is not clear is exactly how all of the sharing takes place in the closed-environment groups that users can pre-determine. Will only the people in a user’s hypothetical “Family Circle” be allowed permissions in a user-defined Spark? What if a user wants to only tell their “Bookstore Circle” that there is a Huddle at their local bookstore? The demo does not show clearly how that will happen, but all bets are for Google Plus. Most believe that Google, the search engine giant and creator of the platform has it all figured out and that the Circles feature – which seems to be the core of the entire Google Plus experience at the moment – will easily interact with all the other features.
In this article, the reader learned that the part of Google Plus that is generating a frenzy of media and user attention is the Circles feature. Potential users hope that the relationship segmenting will be an intuitive part of the platform. Readers have also learned that, while there is a lot of buzz about Google Plus, there are not many definitive or official answers yet. Google is testing Google Plus with a limited number of early users who are helping to create a better experience through good feedback.
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