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buddies are still going on about a funny thing that happened involving the waiter? To temporarily stop receiving messages from a Messenger conversation (with the goal of perhaps picking them up later and getting back into the conversation), you can mute the exchange. On an Android phone, press and hold the conversation’s listing on the main Messenger screen, and then choose Mute. Or, if you’re looking at the Messenger exchange you want to mute, tap your phone’s Menu button and choose Mute from the menu that pops up. On an iPhone, tap the gear icon in the upper-right of the conversation you want to mute, and then tap the Mute switch to turn it on.

It doesn’t harm anything to leave a Messenger conversation open even if nobody’s sending anything new, but you might eventually want to formally end the conversation, so you can make room for new Messenger threads. Like muting, you can do this on an Android phone either from the main list of conversations, or from a menu inside the conversation itself. Choose Leave to end the session. On an iPhone, open the conversation, tap the gear icon in the upper-right corner, then choose “Hide conversation.”

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION: RESTRICTING MESSENGER INVITES

I’ve started getting invitations from random people to join their Messenger sessions. Is there a way to stop receiving these invites?

You’ll probably only ever use Messenger with your friends, but if you start getting Messenger invitations from folks you don’t know or don’t want to chat with, you can change your Google+ settings to limit who can send you such invitations. You do this via the Google+ settings page, which you have to access on a desktop or laptop computer, as described on Controlling Which Notifications You Receive. Look for the “Who can start a Messenger conversation with you?” setting, which is near the top of the page. To scale back from the default setting of Anyone, choose Extended Circles (basically “friends of friends”), or scale down to Circles so that only people in your circles can send you Messenger invites.

Mobile Notifications

THE HOW-TO OF SEEING, responding to, and setting up notification preferences on Google+ for Android or iPhone is covered extensively in Chapter 4 starting on Smartphone Notifications. If you don’t have an Android phone or iPhone, you can still see your Google+ notifications on the Google+ mobile website. Simply open your phone’s browser, head to the Google+ home page (type plus.google.com into the browser’s address bar), and then tap the Notifications item.

These notifications look just like the ones you learned about back in Chapter 4. Tap one to see what’s happening and why you were informed about it, then tap the Back button in the upper left to get back to the notification list.

Posting to Google+ via Text Message

IF YOU CAN’T INSTALL the Google+ Android or iPhone app or load the mobile-browser version of Google+ on your phone, you can create posts and receive notifications on your phone through simple text messages if you’re in the U.S. or India. You learned about setting up Google+ to send you notifications via text message in Chapter 4 (Text Messages). Once you’ve got that set-up work out of the way, it’s easy to post to Google+ from your phone.

NOTE

The directions in this section explain how to create text-message posts if you’re in the U.S. If you’re in India, you need to send the texts to 9222222222 (really—that’s nine 2s, to save you some counting), assuming you’re within the +91 country code. Simply swap in that number wherever you see “33669” below.

Create a text message addressed to 33669. (You’ll probably want to save 33669 in your contacts under the name “Google+” or “GPlus” so that it’s easy to pull up later.) Write out the message you’d like to post. You can include web addresses, which will show up as text links in your post, not as “attached” links with image previews (Adding Photos, Videos, Links, and Locations). If you want to send this post to “Your circles” and you don’t have a security code set up for your phone, that’s all