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The Ultimate Guide to Google+

By now you’ve certainly heard of Google+, the social network  Google has built to out-Facebook Facebook. But if you haven’t received an invite or been added to one of your friends’ Circles, you might not have seen inside Google+ or gotten a feel for exactly what it’s like. For starters, Google+ offers multiple ways of connecting with your friends and family as well as keeping people easily separated, which allows you to better manage who sees what you post. When you first receive an invite to Google+, you may be prompted to enable a few privacy settings that you may have previously disabled. For example, if you previously blocked yourself from Google Buzz or didn’t have your full name associated with your Gmail and/or Google profile, you’ll be asked to re-enable these in order to access Google+. This also means that Google Buzz is back again, so be sure to check and update your Google Buzz settings in Gmail if necessary. After adjusting your privacy settings, Google+ will prompt you to fill out the “About” section. The questions are a cross between filling out a dating profile and being interrogated by a nosy neighbor. It starts innocuously enough by asking you to tell the Google+ world a little bit about yourself so that people will know they found the right you. But then it goes on to “Bragging Rights,” occupation, employment, previous employment, education (feels like a resume, right?), and where you’ve lived in the world. If you really feel like sharing, you can also add home and work contact information, such as phone number, email, fax, chat names, or pager. Not tired of answering questions about yourself? That’s good, because next Grandma Google would like to know if you’re seeing anyone. Options include “I don’t want to say,” “In an open relationship,” “In a civil union,” and “It’s complicated,” which is just like that other social network. Next up are questions about who you’re looking for, other names, such as maiden or alternate spellings, your nickname, and if you’re visible in search or not. Basically, you’ve created your own personal search result for your name. What’s nice about Google+ is that for each question you answer you can choose exactly who will see the information you entered– either the entire Internet, people in your extended circles, only people  in your circles (more on that later), or just you.

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