Google__ The Missing Manual - Kevin Purdy [21]
Below that you may see the same Suggestions section described previously. There’s also a “Circle sharing” section that includes a tempting green button. Clicking it lets you show the people in any of your circles to the people in any other circle, all your circles, or the public. (Circle sharing is covered in detail on Sharing Circles.) Below that is the Hangouts section described above, and in the bottom right of your screen is the “Send feedback” button described next.
UP TO SPEED: THE FEEDBACK BUTTON
As of this writing, Google+ is still pretty new and technically in beta (available for people to use, but with no promises about everything working properly). In order to help improve the site, Google makes it easy for you to weigh in with suggestions, complaints, and other kinds of observations by including a gray “Send feedback” button in the bottom-right corner of every Google+ screen. Click it, and you’ll get a pretty cool tool for telling Google when something goes wrong on the site, or if there’s something that you just don’t like about Google+. A box pops up that includes two buttons: Highlight and “Black out.”
The Highlight button is automatically selected. With this button turned on, you can move your cursor over a section of your screen to point it out to Google (you can highlight several different parts of the screen if you want). If your screen includes something you don’t want the people at Google to see like a friend’s phone number, click the “Black out” button and then click the thing you want to hide.
In the “Describe the problem” box, explain the bug you’ve discovered as specifically as you can. When you’re done, click the Preview button to see the information that will be sent to Google. If you want to make changes, click Cancel to get back to your original screen and start again. If everything looks okay, click “Send feedback to Google.”
Go ahead and use this handy feedback tool whenever you feel irked or like something must be broken. The folks who created Google+ will honestly appreciate it.
What’s In a Post
Every post includes the same basic features:
The poster’s profile photo and name. Click either one to hop to that person’s profile page.
The time and date the post was published. (If the post was created today, you see only the time.) Click this timestamp to see the post on a separate page.
NOTE
You may see the term “(edited)” after a post’s timestamp, which means that the person who wrote the post made changes to it after she originally posted it. Editing, Deleting, and Controlling Your Posts explains how to edit your own posts.
The word “Public” or “Limited.” This indicates whether this post is available for the whole world to see or restricted to just a worthy few. To see exactly who a limited post was shared with, click the word “Limited” to display a pop-out box with thumbnails of up to 22 of the other people who can see it.
A faint gray arrow inside a circle. Click this icon to see a menu that lets you link to the post (Blocking, Muting, and Reporting Posts), report abusive content in the post to Google, “mute” the post, or block the person who posted it, so you won’t see any further posts from him (all covered on Blocking, Muting, and Reporting Posts).
NOTE
You may see another item after a post’s timestamp: the word “Mobile,” or maybe “+1’d on [something.com].” This lets you know that the post was written by someone using Google+ on their cellphone or mobile device, or was typed by someone who clicked a +1 button on a website other than Google+. In either case, it’s just to let you know that the post was probably typed quickly or on a small screen so you’ll be more understanding of brevity and typos.
Below all that