Completing Your Google+ Profile

When you finish adding some basic information, you are taken into the Google+ website and can begin using the service. Before you start to use Google+ to find and communicate with people, you should complete your profile.

The basic information you added during sign-up (your name, your gender, birthdate and a photo) is enough to get started, but it’s often better to add more information so people can get a better understanding of who you are.

Click the account icon (the profile photo thumbnail). The first time you click the account icon, a Welcome page appears that makes it easy to add several pieces of information to your profile, as shown in Figure 2-4.

FIGURE 2-4 The Welcome page enables you to flesh out your ...

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