Used the Uncircle Inactives extension to remove 100 people from my circles

I know some peo­ple don’t post pub­licly so I’m pretty cau­tious in my use of it. But if it says they’ve never posted since they signed up and I don’t rec­og­nize their name… I prob­a­bly didn’t need to be fol­low­ing them.

Same goes for the ones who I’ve cir­cled but haven’t cir­cled me back and don’t have any pub­lic post­ings. What’s the point?

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13 thoughts on “Used the Uncircle Inactives extension to remove 100 people from my circles”

  1. Michael Martinez
    November 14, 2011 at 17:49

    If I under­stand it cor­rectly, if you cir­cle some­one you are direct­ing your com­mu­ni­ca­tions TO that per­son when you post only to that circle.

    It’s sort of like a mail­ing list.

    Most peo­ple tend to lurk in any dis­cus­sion forum (esti­mates range from 80 to 95 per cent).

    I would never expect the major­ity of peo­ple in a ran­dom cir­cle to respond to anything.

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  2. Nykki B
    November 14, 2011 at 17:49

    I am still watch­ing :D

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  3. Angela McBain
    November 14, 2011 at 17:49

    Agreed. Isn’t G+ sup­posed to be about inter­ac­tion?

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  4. Lisa Penland
    November 14, 2011 at 17:50

    I’ve uncir­cled a few I know in real life because they’ve never posted anything.…is no point if they pre­fer the phone.

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  5. Leonard Suskin
    November 14, 2011 at 17:52

    I don’t bother remov­ing inac­tives, and won’t unless/until I near the upper limit. They don’t hurt me, and per­haps they’ll read some­thing of mine and it will mean somet­ing to them.

    I will remove peo­ple who post con­tent which either doesn’t inter­est me or clogs my feed.

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  6. Eoghann Irving
    November 14, 2011 at 17:56

    Remov­ing the inac­tives makes it a lot eas­ier to main­tain my dif­fer­ent cir­cles I find.

    Also with my two pub­lic cir­cles, now that they’re past 100 mem­bers I’m plan­ning on pretty actively curat­ing them so that it’s not just peo­ple who are inter­ested in the topic, but actively engag­ing on it.

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  7. Hanieh Akbarimehr
    November 14, 2011 at 17:56

    Maybe they would be active in a few days.….??

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  8. Rick Brockschmidt
    November 14, 2011 at 19:20

    I hate to say ‘me too’ but I agree with +Leonard Suskin not that I am near any limit but rather am the flip side. I rarely have any­thing cre­ative to push. I often have some­thing to say though I’m reluc­tant to debate and agree­ing is so un-involved usu­ally. The last thing I’d want is to become a feed-clogger. Thus my options are lim­ited.
    I’d hate to lose your dis­course +Eoghann Irv­ing it makes my day. I rarely go out­side, almost never have vis­i­tors, hate the phone, and only watch TV after 8 pm(except NFL games) so the inter­net is my life.

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  9. Eoghann Irving
    November 14, 2011 at 19:29

    Well the key point is I don’t uncir­cle peo­ple’ who’s names I know.

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  10. Rick Brockschmidt
    November 14, 2011 at 19:32

    “Whew”(wipes sweat from brow)

    NUFF SAID

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  11. Claudio Ibarra
    November 15, 2011 at 07:29

    For­give the crazy per­son who hasn’t used any circling/uncircling exten­sions… I installed it and ran it, and it shows me every­one in my cir­cles. How do you go from that to see the inac­tive persons?

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  12. Eoghann Irving
    November 15, 2011 at 11:57

    You should have two lists of cir­cles +Clau­dio Ibarra. The first is the list of cir­cles you want to check so you can either pick only a cou­ple or just go with All Circles.

    The sec­ond is the list of cir­cles you want to exclude. I always exclude my Friends and Fam­ily circles.

    Click they Apply but­ton and then it will prompt you for the inac­tiv­ity cri­te­ria (how long some­one has to have been inac­tive to be uncircled).

    Click Check Activ­ity and it will run through every­one con­firm­ing their activ­ity. After that it will give you the chance to man­u­ally check people’s pro­files or auto­mat­i­cally uncircle.

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  13. Claudio Ibarra
    November 15, 2011 at 12:15

    Thanks +Eoghann Irv­ing. I was appar­ently includ­ing AND exclud­ing every­one, so I wasn’t see­ing the date fil­ter. I never claimed to be smart.

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