CHAPTER FOUR

How Do I Find and Add Friends?

In this chapter:

+ Searching for People You Know

+ Finding Friends from Your Contacts

+ Checking Out People Who’ve Added You

What use is a social network without friends? Without people to share with, you won’t get a thing out of Google+, so as soon as you set up an account and password, you should find your friends.

Unlike Facebook, which intrinsically considers the relationships between you and your friends to be personal (with people you know in the real world), Google+ enables you to form relationships with people you haven’t met in person by following their public posts. Often you find new people when your friends reshare people’s posts. You can follow their posts, status updates, and other ...

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