Sharing your Google Plus Circles – meh.

Written by in Google Plus on September 26, 2011
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It’s Battle  of the Public Lists!  We’ve got Twitter, Facebook and now G+ that can all share lists (or circles) publicly.

I certainly don’t want to share all my circles.  I have some pretty down and dirty ones.  Yet there are some I would be very happy to share and I’m interested to see how the new Share a Circle  function works.  So I took one of my circles (aptly called Givers and Sharers) and made it public.

Circle

You’ll notice I made it public but also shared it to my circles.  Everyone in the circle should also be notified and can see those I’ve included.  Interesting that you cannot see what I named the circle.

Hmmm…then I found this video from G+:

I’m not sold yet on the idea that I want to publicize my circles even after my Circle Saturday post.  Hey, I already have next weeks Circle Saturday written.  I really hope the Circle Saturday thing catches on.

I think the reason this isn’t such a big thing to me is that it’s very temporary.  This share happens in my stream.  It’s just a point in time and it disappears down the stream in a few days.  It’s not bookmarked over on my sidebar.  It’s one and done.  It’s like a group POKE, but then you can’t return the Poke.  Maybe it’s more like a Tweet containing only a #FF and 6 @Names with no explanation why.  Not very valuable, eh?

Compare that to a public Twitter List like  my Hockey Pucks, F1 Peeps or Coolest 100 or even a public Facebook List like my Great RE People – all of which have  staying power and at least tell people the ‘what’ or the ‘why’.

But then again, with the new Facebook Timeline a public list is going to be hard to find.  Does  that mean Twitter won this round?

What do you think?  Have a list to share?

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  • http://thekencook.com Ken Cook

    Jury is way out. Before I wrote my article on the topic I shared a circle which had just been shared with me. It resulted in me connecting with a few people I am probably interested in hearing what they have to say and several people connecting with me. Like you I have “protected” groups, I’m not going to share my “Family” circle for example, but I have circles with members who would likely prefer to be shared. “Politicians” would be one of those.

  • Marc

    My buddy shared a G+ ist of my high school class and added me into it.  I instantly was able to follow everyone in my class without having to go searching to find everyone.  I was also able to be instantly found by those from my class looking for me.  I get that we don’t want to share all lists, but it makes a lot of sense in circumstances like this.