How to group your friends into Circles in Google Plus [Google+]

Google Plus is a new social networking service powered by Google that holds a lot of promise. One main feature of Google Plus is allowing users to group their friends or contacts into Circles. By grouping friends or contacts into Circles you can know who gets to see things you are sharing and vice versa. Therefore, you can create a circle of contacts that are "Best friends", "family", "co-workers" and so on. Then if you share a photo with a Circle named "Best friends", all friends in the "Best friends" circle will get your photo. At the moment, Facebook does not offer this feature like Google Plus [Google+].

This article will describe how to use Circles feature in Google Plus [Google+] .

Step 1: Login using your Google Account
Login to your Google Plus website using your Google Account (click here to go to the Google Plus home page).

Step 2: Create Circles
In your Google Plus home page, click the 'Circles' tab.
In the 'Circles' page, you can drag your contacts into Circles. One contact can be in more than one Circle. You can also create new circles.

Step 3: Share information
After creating circles you can decide who to share. For example, I go to the Google plus home page and create a stream "Share this with my best friends".
 
Then I click 'Add circles or people to share with'.
 

Next I will choose the circle "Best Friends" that I will share and Click 'Share' button.

You can also choose to share with everyone in your cirles by choosing 'Your circles'.
 
You can also choose to share with everyone by choosing 'Public'.

'Extended circles' option is used to when you need to share with everyone in your circles plus everyone in your friends' circles.


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