{"id":719,"date":"2011-07-14T14:12:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T02:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=719"},"modified":"2011-07-14T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T02:12:16","slug":"google-feature-suggestion-ringsspheressuper-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/719\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ Feature Suggestion: Rings\/Spheres\/Super-Circles"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

A tenuous link to Delphi I accept, but a Google+ suggestion occurred to me, arising from my Delphi-oriented use of it.<\/p>\n

A potential problem I am seeing already on Google+ is where I get a notification that “So-And-So” has added me to their circles. In some cases I don’t know this person, but they have added me because *they* know they share a common interest with me. I cannot see that they have this interest, because I am not told which of their circles they added me to or why – and I should not see this.<\/p>\n

I appreciate the privacy this affords me when on the other side of the equation.<\/p>\n

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However, it does make it difficult to establish extended groups of common interests between people who do not otherwise know each other.<\/p>\n

Currently with the limited number of people on G+, I can deduce that in such cases the likelihood is that they know me from my activity in the Delphi community and have found me through my “Delphi circles”. But I can only GUESS that this is the case – adding them to a Delphi ciricle is a good guess right now, but as G+ grows and the range of common interests among my extended circles grows, this will soon break down.<\/p>\n

When I see that someone who I don’t know has added me to their circles, which of my circles do I add them to? Photography? \u00a0Delphi? \u00a0Chris Nolan Fans? \u00a0Whisky? \u00a0Cooking? \u00a0Wine?<\/p>\n

What I see is a need to establish a “Circle of Common Interest”<\/p>\n

So how’s this for an idea for a Google+ feature that – as far as I can see – doesn’t exist yet:<\/p>\n

“Rings” (or “Spheres”) – << continuing the “Circle” metaphor<\/p>\n

The Music of The Spheres<\/h2>\n

A “Ring\/Sphere” would be a “super-circle” initially created by someone. Anyone could then add themselves to that that Ring\/Sphere – the overall effect would be the same as if everyone in that Ring\/Sphere had created a circle of a given name and added everyone else with that circle to their own circle with the same name.<\/p>\n

Essentially a “Group”<\/p>\n

The creator of a Ring\/Sphere would have the ability to specify whether people could add themselves to it without confirmation, require a “moderator\/administrator” to accept a “join request” or establish a “Ring\/Sphere of Trust” (allow a join request to be accepted by anyone already in that Ring\/Sphere.<\/p>\n

Obviously there are lots of potential variations on how the fundamental idea could work in practice.<\/p>\n

+1 if you think it would be a good addition to Google+. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> A tenuous link to Delphi I accept, but a Google+ suggestion occurred to me, arising from my Delphi-oriented use of it. A potential problem I am seeing already on Google+ is where I get a notification that “So-And-So” has added me to their circles. 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