What I have learnt about Shared Circles

Never add one that is “awe­some peo­ple” or “Great engagers”.

Those def­i­n­i­tions are mean­ing­less unless you have suf­fi­cient com­mon interests.

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27 thoughts on “What I have learnt about Shared Circles”

  1. Bethany Farmer
    November 23, 2011 at 19:41

    I don’t tend to pay atten­tion to shared cir­cles. I pre­fer to meet peo­ple in inter­est­ing threads and engage with them there and then circle.

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  2. Andrew Perez
    November 23, 2011 at 19:42

    Well that closes the door on my awe­some engager circle

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  3. Eoghann Irving
    November 23, 2011 at 19:42

    I have picked up some good topic spe­cific ones, but even then it usu­ally needs some weed­ing out after the fact.

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  4. Shirese Louie
    November 23, 2011 at 19:43

    I can’t agree more. I do like the “shared cir­cles” that specif­i­cally expresses a focused inter­est among peo­ple in that circle.

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  5. Edals Neirb'o
    November 23, 2011 at 19:43

    you need my “round cir­cle of 12″ event though i am sure you have most already

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  6. Krissy Hamilton
    November 23, 2011 at 19:44

    I think the only shared cir­cle I have ever cir­cled was when +Bliss Mor­gan shared for Night­mare Fuel. Other than that, I’ve been pretty picky about who I add.

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  7. Eoghann Irving
    November 23, 2011 at 19:45

    I actu­ally just went through and deleted the Night­mare Fuel cir­cle as part of my purge.

    My the­ory is any­one I was actively talk­ing to will have made it to one of my other cir­cles now.

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  8. Krissy Hamilton
    November 23, 2011 at 19:46

    I had added it to my writ­ing cir­cle, and then I pruned it until it was per­fect for me. :-)

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  9. Christy Knight
    November 23, 2011 at 19:46

    I found that shared cir­cles was just a good way to muddy up my stream and miss posts by peo­ple I actu­ally cared about.

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  10. Sarah Rios
    November 23, 2011 at 19:48

    There’s going to be a giant cir­cle purge after #NaNoW­riMo is over with (and thank you for remind­ing me about the Night­mare Fuel cir­cle… I for­got about it. lol). I feel like my stream is going to lose 30 pounds worth of fluff at the end of the month.

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  11. Marc Jansen
    November 23, 2011 at 19:48

    I’ve added a few shared cir­cles, myself, and I have com­pletely deleted a cou­ple of them as being noth­ing but a nui­sance, and I have actively been prun­ing the dead-wood form the oth­ers, keep­ing only those who actu­ally inter­act with me in some fashion.

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  12. Edals Neirb'o
    November 23, 2011 at 19:49

    +Eoghann Irv­ing i think alot of the “good inten­tion” cir­cles some how ends up with spam and self pro­mo­tion instead of legit convo’s and ques­tions and inter­ac­tion
    sorry if that sounds prud­ish in a way but i’m just not a “i want num­bers” person…convos have to 75% of the time have some actual thought

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  13. Eoghann Irving
    November 23, 2011 at 19:52

    I have 4 cir­cles left to prune. Right now it’s fol­low­ing which is just ridicu­lously large.

    Then it’s Pho­tog­ra­phy which will be a tough one because there are some great images being posted. But a lot of these peo­ple don’t speak to me at all.

    And the tough­est will be my Fan­tasy & Sci-Fi Lovers Cir­cles, because now that they’ve grown to a decent size I want to prune them back based on who is actu­ally talk­ing about Fan­tasy & Sci-Fi… not just who likes it.

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  14. V C Willow
    November 23, 2011 at 19:53

    Don’t prune me from fan­tasy and sci –fi lovers, i’ve just been too busy to post any­thing of late…smiles sweetly :-D

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  15. Shirese Louie
    November 23, 2011 at 19:54

    Has any­one been post­ing there – I mean about sci/fi and fantasy?

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  16. Lys Phillips
    November 23, 2011 at 19:56

    Every­one I’ve added dur­ing NaNo went straight into the friends cir­cle, since i see it as like minds belong in the friends…writing, silly.…all good!

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  17. Marc Jansen
    November 23, 2011 at 19:57

    That’s an excel­lent ques­tion, +Shirese Louie! I love sci-fi & fan­tasy, but have not been par­tic­i­pat­ing in such dis­cus­sions due to the sim­ple fact that I’ve not seen them!

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  18. Amelia Wood
    November 23, 2011 at 19:57

    +Eoghann Irv­ing Wisely spo­ken, er writ­ten. Thank you!

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  19. Eoghann Irving
    November 23, 2011 at 19:59

    It seems as though many of the peo­ple who wanted added to Sci-Fi and Fan­tasy aren’t talk­ing about those sub­jects at all, which is why I want to move in a dif­fer­ent direc­tion with them.

    They’re pub­licly shared cir­cles so any­one can add them if they just want an oppor­tu­nity to read about sci-fi stuff. But want to make the cir­cles peo­ple who actively talk about it.

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  20. V C Willow
    November 23, 2011 at 19:59

    I cer­tainly hope that my Nano cir­cle will remain once Novem­bers over. It’s great to be in touch with other writ­ers and share and have con­ver­sa­tions with oth­ers with a sim­i­lar interest

    I too haven’t seen any sci-fi or fan­tasy threads posted. Kept mean­ing to chase it up then got dis­tracted writing…oops Mag­pie approach

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  21. Krissy Hamilton
    November 23, 2011 at 19:59

    I find that I rarely post to a spe­cific cir­cle with the excep­tion of writ­ing and stuff I only post to close friends and fam­ily. Other than that, I am just me and I kind of fig­ure if you like me you prob­a­bly like me if I’m talk­ing about games, knit­ting, or ran­dom nerdy pur­suits. I fail at circles.

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  22. Shirese Louie
    November 23, 2011 at 20:00

    +Eoghann Irv­ing I guess all of us in those cir­cles who are men­tion­ing peo­ple not talk­ing about sci-fi or fan­tasy are guilty of not talk­ing about it either. Just sayin’…

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  23. Eoghann Irving
    November 23, 2011 at 20:02

    I should prob­a­bly take the time to seed those cir­cles with a few dis­cus­sion top­ics and notify peo­ple. See what that shakes out.

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  24. Eoghann Irving
    November 23, 2011 at 20:04

    Well at least a quar­ter of what I post is fan­tasy or SF related in some way. ;)

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  25. Dan Lewis
    November 23, 2011 at 20:31

    I haven’t engaged much +Eoghann Irv­ing , but I greatly enjoy your posts.

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  26. Steven Spence
    November 23, 2011 at 22:19

    I’ve added a few shared cir­cles. They helped spice up my stream in the begin­ning. I met peo­ple I wouldn’t have oth­er­wise. Yes, some prun­ing is required, but I’ve been happy with the gems I’ve found.

    I don’t just add whole cir­cles any­more. Some­where along the way, I learned to check each pro­file upfront, which has cut down on the prun­ing after the fact. On the whole, I prob­a­bly pick up more new peo­ple to fol­low from threads I’m inter­ested in than any other method.

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  27. Amanda Blain
    November 24, 2011 at 00:10

    Shared cir­cles are good for peo­ple who don’t want to take the time to use the search… A quick way to fill your stream… you will have to weed them out though.. :)

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