Lesson 9: Chatting on Google+

In this lesson, you learn how to chat on Google+, using text, voice, and video.

Understanding Google+ Chat

Google+ enables you to communicate directly with other users through its chat functionality. You can chat in a text-based chat window, optionally enhanced with voice chat, video chat, or group chat.

Unlike other social sites such as Facebook, Google+ doesn’t display everyone in your circles on your chat list, even if they are online on Google+. In order to chat with people on Google+, you must already chat with them using another Google product or invite them to chat.

Exploring the Chat List

If you use chat in other Google products such as Gmail, iGoogle, Google Talk, or Orkut, the people you’ve chatted with ...

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