My circles need to intersect
Our first look at Google Plus was quite, um, effusive. But since then, we have noted a problem.
Our circles need to intersect.
Which is to say that we expect to be able to combine our circles in two ways: as a Union and as an Intersection.
We want to be able to do this:
When we choose to share something, we want to have a full set of options:
- Share with our guitar playing friends.
- Share with our keyboard playing friends.
- Share with both our guitar and keyboard playing friends.
- Share with friends who play instruments that fit in both the guitar and keyboard families.
More seriously, I have a circle for “friends”, and a circle for “people who live in London” — if I want to share with “friends in London”, I need to … create yet another circle.
Fix this, Google.
I tired to “+1″ this, but google plus is blocked at work.
I’m hearing lots of people saying it’s blocked at work — while these same people seem to have access to Facebook.
I don’t get it.
Circle intersections could be used differently also.
I should be able to share a post with those that are both members of my Friends and my friend’s Friends (intersection of my Friends hand his/her Friends). Or as humans say: Our common friends.