What puzzles me about people on G+ is their apparent willingness to circle people who have few or no public posts.
And then the apparent reluctance to ever uncircle anyone.
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Well, I’m not in either group. Hahahahahh
I find those same people.… confusing.…
I’m puzzled by the circling behavior. That’s why I stopped trying to perform circle maintenance with a circle maintenance post. People don’t say “Yes, I’m interested in that, that and that, but not that.” I just have 900 people lurking (minus the two dozen or so who engage).
Yeah, I tend not to circle back people who have made no public posts.
I do like to uncircle people if I find the content they share to be irritating or noisy.
I don’t think I’ve circled anyone with no public posts. And I have definitely uncircled a few, and blocked a few others.
Just what I was about to say, +Tim Glaser
I have no qualms with uncircleing people, especially if they’re a complete stranger. I will however seek out the people who are new to G+ and try to help them along in finding their circles shared interest. This of course excludes people who have no indication that they’re a human being.
I very rarely un-Circle. But I’m VERY slow in adding people so I don’t really ever feel like I have to un-Circle.
I now have 4,240 people circling me. I am certain I have interacted (comments, +1s, shares etc.) with less than 1,000 of them.
+Eoghann Irving because they don’t participate?
Unrircling people takes more effort than circling them. If they show up in my feed as a spammer or somesuch I can kill them off the circle right away, but the actual circle management is a little clunky and takes time.
Well they’re not participating with me at least +Tim Glaser, which really makes me wonder what they get out of circling me.
+Kimberly Unger: One of the reasons I do uncircle people is to keep circle management as easy as possible.
It’s from people passing around shared circles.
I do not fear the uncircling. Like +Patricia Elizabeth I am VERY slow to add people, this probably means I am missing out on some pretty fantastic people. But, I do tend to add if there is consistent interaction in my “community”.
+Eoghann Irving You know, after I thought about it… I have VERY FEW public posts. If I haven’t seen you responding on threads I’ve been involved in, I don’t circle you back, unless your profile is SO interesting and you pass a one-on-one convo (i.e. you don’t seem like a total douche). But I’m SOOO stingy about my circling.
What am I doing in your circles then +Erin Leland?
You and I have interacted quite a bunch.
And I really like your name. So there!
You dropped me either because my post didn’t interest you or irritated you and thats okay. I choose not to clutter your threads with ooohs and wows and such but I am pretty free with the +1’s and shared a story and a couple of pics. I still get to see lots of stuff from you and thats a very cool thing. Heck, if I ever see something I think you would like I can still tag you, right? I can really understand though what it’s like to have way too much stuff flying at you.
I am somewhat slow to circle folks back, partly because I want to get a feel for the kind of interactions I will have with them first, partly because I want to make sure I have them in the appropriate circle, partly because I don’t want to get overwhelmed by G+. Though I also don’t want to only live in an echo chamber with people I already know.
I have uncircled folks whose interests have no overlap with mine, though.
Me Ill circle anyone and I would love anyone to circle me back!
I tend to circle people I have an interest with and don’t worry much about who has circled me honestly. I look at incoming periodically. If I see someone sharing something I like, I circle back.
I don’t care for public posts since I don’t have any myself.
It’s the profile that decides whether I circle/circle back someone or ignore them.
Few of my posts are public either.
I use G+ as a way to privately interact with my friends and keep up with news. I don’t post public information because it’s not a public platform for me.
I have gotten better at it. Now, I check if people are actually posting anything, and if they are, if it’s anything I’m even remotely interested in. But I’m still quite “generous”
Problem is, the activity has grown so fast during the autumn, it’s almost gotten out of control. I aimed for ~100 people in both directions when I started last summer; now it’s approaching 1,000…