Google Plus Features, Tips and Tricks

Google Plus

Recently Google has rolled out Google+ (Plus) that is a really amazing power packed social networking website and looks much more better than Facebook and Twitter.

Google+ has everything AJAX in it, simple look and feel but amazing set of features in it. One has to accept that Google has done some really good and hard work in bringing out Google+. After all, it was their long time wish to have a Google Social Network that can dominate over the web.

From my experience with Google Plus, I would like share some important features of Google+ and some handy tips and tricks about Google+. All these tips let you experience the actual power of Google+ (PLUS).

* One of the important feature in Google+ (PLUS) is Circles, which if you see initially that looks similar to lists in Facebook or Groups in Orkut. But when you really experience Google+ you will know it is much more than List or Group. You can access circles from Circles tab

* With Google+ Plus Circles you can add or remove any to circle just by drag and drop.

* We can use circles while sharing the post to share with selected users only. You can also create hangout with selected circles. Circle give more control over privacy then using individual users.

* Using Google+ you can create Hangout by clicking Start a Hangout button. Using Hangout we can create audio/video conference with any circle or individual users.

* You can click on Google+ Profile pictures to rotate through them.

* Click ‘j‘ to navigate down to the updates item or ‘k‘ to navigate up when checking the stream or any other page containing updates from friends using keyboard.

* To add formatting like bold, italics, strike-through to your text while sharing something on Google+, use the simple trick below.
(*)bold(*): Add * before and after the message.
(_)italics(_): Add _ before and after the message.
(-)strike-through(-): Add - before and after the message.
For example: *Bold Sample* _Italics Sample_ -Strike Through Sample- will appear as shown below:

* If you find a typo in the update which you have shared, what will you do? May be delete the post and share the same post again with correct content. Fortunately Google+ supports editing posts even after you have. Use the drop-down menu of your post to edit or delete it.

* If you don't want people to leave comments or re-share your posts with others it with others? With Google+ you can turn that off there too. Click on the drop-down menu of your post there you can find the options to Disable Comments and Disable Reshare

* Click on “Limited” next to the timestamp to find out the actual list of persons with whom you are sharing a particular post.