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the Share link is the official means of sharing posts you like, but you can easily share a post via email, a blog post, or wherever. To do so, you need to copy the link from the post’s timestamp. Right-click the time to the right of the poster’s name (or, on a Mac, hold the ⌘ key and click), and choose “Copy link location,” “Copy shortcut,” or whatever similar option appears on the shortcut menu. You could also click the timestamp to bring the post up, by itself, in your browser, and then copy the link from your browser’s address bar. Then you can paste that web address into any email, Facebook post, or wherever else you want by right-clicking and choosing Paste, or hitting Ctrl-V (⌘-V on a Mac). Take note, though, that the usual Google+ privacy policies apply: unless the person clicking the link is in the circle the post was originally shared with or the post is set to Public, he’ll see a “Error: Page not found” message.

Editing, Deleting, and Controlling Your Posts

YOU MIGHT WONDER HOW valuable Google+’s circle, stream, and privacy controls are if the site lets anybody who can see your post share it with whoever they want. Well, you need not worry, as Google+ does place some restrictions on how far something can be shared.

If someone posts something with the Public visibility option, then you can share it with whoever you like. But it’s a different story when someone attempts to share a post that you restricted to only a certain circle. Google+ gives you a few additional privacy controls that appear after you post something. To see them, click the gray arrow in a circle on the right side of your post. (If you don’t see the post in your main stream, try clicking over to your Profile page, which includes a Posts section.) The drop-down menu that appears gives you some options for editing and restricting access to your post.

Not every thought you type into Google+ is going to be gold. You might decide later on that you phrased something the wrong way, that you mentioned the wrong person, or that you don’t want that post up at all. Or you might simply see a typo or bad link. Whatever the reason, select “Edit this post” in the drop-down menu to tweak the text of the post, or remove links, photos, or videos you included in it.

NOTE

You can’t add a location, video, or photo to a post when you’re editing it—which can be somewhat aggravating. So if you want a post to declare your whereabouts or focus on a particular photo or video, you’ll need to include those items from the get-go. You can, however, add links to a post you’re editing.

Change whatever you want about the text or extras, and then click “Save.” Just like when you edit comments you’ve written, your post will have a new timestamp with “(edited)” appended to it. One thing you can’t change when editing a post: the circles you initially shared it with. You can restrict how people in those circles are able to share your post (as explained in a moment), and share your post with more circles, but you can’t un-share a post without deleting it entirely. On that note, “Delete this post” is the second option in the drop-down menu. When you delete a post, Google+ removes it from your stream and the streams of everyone you shared it with. But as you’ll learn on Controlling Sharing, deleting a post isn’t the same as wiping the information it contained off the face of the earth. People may have spotted the post in their streams while it was up.

Controlling and Deleting Comments

The folks you share your posts with generally mean well. But sometimes their sense of humor and yours might not jibe. Or they may get into an argument in the comments of your post, or characterize aspects of what you posted in ways you don’t appreciate. Fortunately, you have some control over what goes on in the comments of your posts. In the drop-down menu shown on Controlling Sharing, choose Edit Post.

When you select this menu option, two icons appear at the right edge of each comment on your post when you mouse over them: an X and a flag. Click the X to remove the comment,