3. Dipping into the Stream

If Google+ were a three-legged stool, which it isn’t, the first two legs would be your Google+ account and circles. The final leg of this hypothetical stool would be the stream. Everything people in your circles share with you is displayed in your stream.

This chapter covers how to post to your stream, how to make sure you’re sharing with only the people you want to share with, and how to manage your stream so that you’re not seeing stuff you have no interest in. It also covers what you can do with other people’s posts, including commenting on them and sharing them.

Sharing Overview

The first thing you’ll want to do is post something to your stream (Figure 3.1). Posting content to your stream is known as sharing in ...

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