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Maggie Marystone
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Edited by Justin Pot
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GET INTO GOOGLE PLUS
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
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2. What is Google+?
5
3. Creating a Google account
6
4. The Google+ Sign-up Process
6
5.
Circles
9
5.1
How to Create a Circle
9
5.2
How to Add Friends to a Circle
9
5.3
Creative Uses of Circles
10
6. Chat
10
7. Stream
11
8. Sharing Content
12
8.1
Disabling comments and locking a post
12
8.2
#Hashtags
12
8.3
+1
13
9. Searching & Browsing
13
9.1
Social Search
13
9.3
What’s hot
14
9.4
Trends
14
10. Photos
15
10.1
Photos from your circles
15
10.2
Photos from your phone
15
10.3
Your Albums
16
11. Hangouts
16
12. Advanced Features 17
12.1 Manageyourproile
17
12.1.1 Posts tab
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12.1.2 Your settings page
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12.1.3 Adjust content frequency by Circle
20
12.2
Pages
21
12.2.1 Person vs. Organization
21
12.2.2 Local Business or Place
21
12.2.3 Product or Brand
21
12.2.4 Company Institution or Organization
21
12.2.5 Arts, Entertainment or Sports
22
12.2.6 Other
22
12.3
Games
22
13.
Mobile Apps
23
13.1
Messenger
23
14. Tips & Tricks
23
14.1 Markup syntax - Fancify your posts
23
14.2
Hotkeys - Be fast, impress your friends
23
14.3
Google+ Browser Extensions
24
15. Conclusion
24
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1. Introduction
Perhaps you were a founding member of MySpace. May-
be you’re a Facebook power user, or maybe you’ve just
started to explore the world of social media. Either way,
if you’re reading this guide, you have probably wondered,
“Why should I sign up for Google+?”
The answer is simple: Google. You may have heard of
them. Even if you already have other social networking
accounts, you should sign up for Google+ simply because
Google is going to be around for a very long time. It’s
almost impossible to avoid using Google products in your
online life. In December 2011, Google+ was averaging
625,000 new users
every day
, and Google predicts they
will have
400 million users by the end of 2012
. Google
continues to connect their products in new, interesting
and effective ways - Plus is at the center of that.
You may have heard that Google+ is on its way out.
Google says otherwise.
“Not only is Google Plus not a ghost town,” Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president for engineering,
Here’s the point: joining Google+ means you will be poised to take advantage of all that Google has to offer.
From personalized search results to instant photo uploads, you will soon see the value of Google+ even beyond its
mainbeneit:sharinganddiscoveringcontentthat
you
are interested in.
2. What is Google+?
Is Google+ just another social media network?
Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like are all social networks. They’re designed to let you share up-to-the-
second updates, ideas, thoughts, links and media with your friends and the public.
How is Google+ different?
The big difference between Google+ and other social networking platforms is that Google has integrated Google+ with
its other services (and continues to do so): search, YouTube, Gmail and much more. While Facebook and Twitter offer
variouswaysofusingtheirplatformtoshareandcommentoncontentyouindonthird-partywebsites,youwillind
that Google+ is already built into services you use every day.
Google+alsoredeinessocialnetworkingprivacybyintroducingaconceptnewtothegenre:Circles.Circlesdifferenti-
ate Google+ from Facebook by allowing users
precise control over who sees what
.
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