Oops!

On Friday I created a Google+ account and I think that I may have been spamming family, friends and coworkers with updates.

Google+ is Google's answer to Facebook. It has a really nice feature that instead of just having a bunch of people all classified as your "Friends" you can create different 'circles' with different people in them and control who gets to see what.

It also allows you to add to your circles people who are not yet on Google+, using their email addresses. That's what got me into trouble. I had created separate circles for Family, Friends, Co-Workers and Business Acquaintances. When I went to post updates it asked me if I wanted to share it with my circles, to which I said yes, thinking it would only make it available on Google+ stream for other Google+ users to view, much like Facebook's whiteboard. In retrospect, I think that means that it was sending the updates out to all of the email-only people in all of my circles, too.

Oops.

I think that when posting I need to share with "Public" rather than my circles. That way it will only be made available to other Google+ users.

BTW, if anyone wants a Google+ invite, let me know and I'll send you one.