Saturday, July 30, 2011

Time to get serious about Google+ circles

One of the best things about Google+ is the ability to give different people different access to your posts. But you might want to plan now so you don't have to reorganize everything after you have a mass of people in the default circles. So I'm mapping out a few ideas. Here is the plan so far.

0.0 Me only
0.1 Household
1.0 Immediate family
1.1 Extended family
1.2 "Like family"
1.3 Family....... /facepalm.
2.0 Very close friends
2.01 Friends with benefits
2.02 Friends who will help bury a body.
2.1 Just friends
2.2 Not really friends, but don't let them know I said that.
2.3 Not friends. At all. But there, you're in a circle. Have fun with that.
2.4 No longer friends. But they know....... bad things.
3.0 Coworkers
3.01 Coworkers who can borrow my stapler.
3.02 Coworkers who won't blab to the boss.
3.03 Coworkers to warn before shooting up the place.
3.1 Coworkers I pretend to like.
3.2 Coworkers best lied to at all times.
3.3 Coworkers who need to be in a circle so I don't shatter some VP's delicate sense of worth.
3.4 Old coworkers, fondly remembered.
3.41 Old Coworkers I was happy to have lost touch with. Was...
4.0 People who should likely be hidden from everyone else.
5.0 Friends on the Internet.
5.1 Strangers on the Internet.
5.2 People on the Internet to keep a suspicious/worried eye on.
6.0 Internet folk to follow because they're interesting.
6.1 Internet folk to follow to look cool and savvy.
7.0 Networking contacts: employment
7.1 Networking contacts: hobbies
7.2 Networking contacts: drugs, bombs, hookers, etc.
8.0 Warcraft guild members who found me despite all efforts.
8.1 SCA, D&D, ComiCon, freak contacts.
9.0 Hobbies: Photography
9.1 Hobbies: Cooking
9.2 Hobbies: Technology
9.3 Hobbies: Porn
10.0 Childhood friends
10.1 High school friends
10.2 College friends
10.3 Drinking buddies
10.4 People I met in the checkout line.
11.0 Tacos.

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