Getting Started with Google+ (Google Plus)

 

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OK, I’ve written a bunch of articles on Google+, but I’ve not written just a general, getting started one, so here it is…

In this article:

  • What IS Google+?
  • What can you DO with Google+?
  • How do I get a Google+ account?
  • How is Google+ different from Facebook?
  • I’ve got a new G+ account, now what?

 

What IS Google+?

Google+ is Google’s answer to Facebook and Twitter.  It’s not exactly like Facebook, but it’s very similar.  It’s not a whole lot like Twitter, but it shares some common concepts.  Google+ is a social network that combines features of Facebook and Twitter into one experience.  Please see my article for Facebookers here.

 

What can you DO with Google+?

You can:

  • Create and maintain your profile (photo, name, birthdate, hobbies, likes, dislikes, etc…)
  • Post content (like status updates on FB or tweets on Twitter).
  • Follow other people (like following on twitter).
  • Divide your friends up into circles of your own choosing.
  • –==>>** Choose who sees each of your posts by selecting the circles and/or users that can see it!!! **<<==--
    • This is a KEY, differentiating feature of G+!  Don’t underestimate this easy to use, yet extremely powerful and game changing feature!
  • View posts from anyone you’re following in your “stream” (like Facebook’s newsfeed).
  • View posts from only people in one of your circles that you’ve created.
  • View posts from people that are following YOU, but that you’re NOT following back.
  • View posts from people that are currently nearby you, geographically, whether either of you are following each other (mobile app only).
  • Post photos.  Picasa is integrated into G+.  Choose which of your albums are viewable by which of your friends and/or circles..
  • Post videos.  YouTube powers this behind the scenes, but it’s fully integrated into G+ is is part of G+.  Choose which of your videos are viewable by which of your friends and/or circles.
  • Sparks:  This is touted a lot by Google and by all the fanfare in the press, but really, this is nothing but saved Google searches.  They show up on the left side of your screen.  When you click one, it performs a new search for that item.  It’s handy, but not all that important, in my view.
  • Hangouts:  This is group video chat.  I’ve not used it yet, but people say it’s great.  Web browser only.
  • Huddles:  This is group text chat.  I’ve used this and it can be useful.  All the press talks about it as a great way for multiple friends to easily coordinate the complications of getting everyone together for dinner and such.  Mobile app only.

 

How do I get a Google+ account?

At the time of this writing, Google+ is only available by invite only.  I’ll be happy to send you an invite.  Send me an e-mail message to image.  I’ll invite you via the e-mail address you sent the request from, or you can just tell me in the e-mail message to use a different e-mail address.  The invite I send will include instructions for getting to the site and logging in.  It will come from Google Plus, not me, but I can initiate the invite.

 

How is Google+ different from Facebook?

At first glance, it looks an awful lot like Facebook.  In fact, someone has made a skin for G+ that makes it look almost identical to Facebook.  There are a few fundamental differences though.

  • Security:  Facebook wants you to browse its site insecurely, from its login page, to browsing all the pages on the site.  It doesn’t use “https” by default and even if you force the “s” in the URL to turn an “http” address into an “https” address, sometimes it just won’t accept it or will change it back to “http” without the “s”.  Sometimes it will accept it.  That “s” is incredibly important as it ensures the page you’re on is encrypted.  This is ESPECIALLY important when you’re on an open, wifi network, like at your hotel or the airport or Starbucks or McDonald’s.  ANYONE can see exactly what you’re typing into an http page and can see exactly what you’re seeing on an http page.  If you login via an http page, you’re transmitting your login name and password to whoever is sniffing the open wifi traffic (and sometimes, on a wired network too).  G+ has no options at all to view any of their pages insecurely.  Try to enter just “http” and G+ will redirect to an https page to ensure your traffic is kept private.  This is a fundamental difference in principle between the two social networks.
  • Friending:  In Facebook, you find a friend, send them a “friend request”, then they either accept your friend request, reject it, or ignore it.  If they accept it, you are both linked to each other as “friends”.  You both see each other’s posts, videos, and photos.  In G+ there’s no direct equivalent of “friending”.  Instead, you just follow anyone and everyone you so choose (like Twitter).  You’ll only see the posts they make public and posts they choose for you to see.  They can follow you back, but that still doesn’t make any of their posts any more visible to you.  Instead, if they’re following you, they’ll probably add you to one of their circles (friends, family, freaks, etc…).  You won’t know WHICH circle of theirs you’re in, but when they add you to a circle, you’ll be notified that you’re now in one of their circles.  So, “friending” would be you following someone and they’re following you back.  You both still have complete control over which of your posts the other sees because an essential part of posting on G+ is choosing which friends and/or circles can see it.  Most people, if they don’t make their posts public, will choose to post it to all of their circles.
  • Control of your posts:  One of the problems you’ve likely run into with Facebook (assuming you’re a Facebook user) is that you’ve friended your friends, your parents, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, your kids, your coworkers, your bosses, and others.  Now, you’re in a predicament:  You’ve got a great joke to share, but it’s not appropriate for all of your audience.  What do you do?  If you’re responsible, you just don’t share it.  If you’re irresponsible, you post it, forgetting that your kids, your students, your nieces and nephews, and your boss are all receiving it.  In G+, since you have circles, you can post that off-color joke just to the group of people that are mature enough to see it and are not likely to judge you poorly for posting it.  You could even create a circle called “NSFW”, if you like and you’ve got an easy and convenient circle to post your NSFW jokes to.  You would, of course, exclude your employers, your coworkers (unless they’re close friends), your employees, your students, your teachers, your parents, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, your kids, you nieces and nephews, you scout parents, your scouts, etc…  If you want to complain about how you’re being treated unfairly at work, you’d probably want to post to a circle that doesn’t include your boss or anyone else that works there.  With G+, its very very very easy to make this happen.
    • Note:  Facebook actually has this feature too.  It’s called “Lists”, but it’s hard to find, hard to manage, and hard to use.  Probably more than 99% of Facebookers don’t even know it exists and the majority that know about it, don’t use it because it’s too cumbersome.
  • Privacy:  Facebook is created with the intention of “everything should be public and if you don’t want it public, you need to take extra steps to prevent that from happening”.  Mark Zuckerberg has stated multiple times that he believes all your data on Facebook should be public, and in fact, it helps HIM if all your posts are public, but it’s a big security risk for YOU, for many obvious and not so obvious reasons.  G+ takes the opposite approach.  Your data should be private unless you say so and you should have control over that privacy.  G+ does a good job (not a great job, but a good job).  Facebook gets an F-.  Google+ gets a C+.  One big problem with both of them is that they insist that you use your real name and that it be public and searchable.  There are, again, so many obvious problems with this I won’t go into them here.  G+ has gone so far as to mass disable thousands of accounts (including mine, temporarily) for not using real names… and even for women adding their maiden names in parenthesis by their real names!  Anyway, the privacy settings in G+ are easy to get to and easily understood, for the most part.

For more details of the differences between Facebook and Google+, I’ve put together this table showing the differences:

 

I’ve got a new G+ Account, Now What?

Now,

  1. Lock down your privacy.
  2. Start following people.
  3. Invite friends, family, coworkers, employers, etc… to join.
  4. Create circles.
  5. Entice your Facebook friends over.

BTW, if you want an invite to Google Plus, e-mail me at image.  That’s not a clickable e-mail address… It’s a picture to prevent spammers from easily scraping it.  You’ll need to type that address, exactly as you see it, including the G and the + in front of the word “Invite”.  I’d also appreciate you clicking the “+1” at the bottom of this post.

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You’ll find an actual working version of it at the bottom of this article. Please click the appropriate buttons in it to let your friends know about this article so they too can quickly quickly get up and going with Google+.

Check back later for updates too!

Click here to follow me on Google+.

Good Luck and Enjoy your new Google+ account!

Google+ (or Google Plus) How to “Friend” or “Follow” someone

 

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Also check out The Ultimate Collection of Google+ (Google Plus) How-To’s

Google+ looks a LOT like Facebook, but fundamentally, it’s different.  You don’t actually “Friend” people on G+ like you do on Facebook.  Instead, you “follow” them, like you do on Twitter.  You can follow anyone.  They can, of course, follow you back, if they want, but they don’t have to.  If you’re both following each other, that’s the closest analogy to “friending” there is.

When you follow someone, they’re notified.  When they follow you, you’re notified.

You follow someone by adding them to your circles.  Circles are a central feature of Google+, are easy to use, and are the game changing feature in this Social Network.

Here’s how to follow an existing Google+ user:

  1. Determine if you already have a circle that’s appropriate to add the person to.  If not, create a new circle that’s appropriate for people of that type.  Note that you can add one person to multiple circles.  For example, you have have circles for “Friends”, “Conservatives”, “Liberals”, “Girls”, “Guys”, “Celebrities”.  One person can easily fit into 3 of those circles.
  2. Find the person.
    1. Using the “Find People’ search box at the top of the Google+ page, enter the person’s name you’re looking for:
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    2. Click the name of the person in the list or use your arrow keys to highlight it and hit [Enter] (or [Return] for you Mac users).
      1. That user’s profile page will then be displayed.  Float your mouse over the “Add to circles” button in the upper right hand corner.
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      2. A list of your circles will be displayed.  Check all the ones you want this person to be in.
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        • BTW, to stop following someone, go to this same button (it’ll be green and will be labeled, “Following”) and uncheck everything.

You’re now following that person.  They will be notified that you’ve added them to your circles.  They will NOT be notified which circle(s) you’ve placed them in.  I do advise that you not make insulting circle names like “jerks”, “morons”, “enemies”, “not really friends”, etc…  You should assume that at some point, you will inadvertently reveal which circle they’re in either by a mistake on your part or some technical snafu, so I strongly recommend naming your circles both accurately for your own use, AND with non-offensive names.  Before you add ANYONE to a circle, ask yourself, “when, not if, this person finds out they’re in this circles, how will they take it?”.  If you think they might be offended, you need to change that circle name.

Now that you’re following them, their public posts (or and any posts they make to one of their circles that you may be in) will show up on your stream page.

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Here’s how to follow an NON-existing Google+ user:

You’ll need to invite the user.

Then, just sit back and wait.  When that user finally joins Google+, you’ll automatically start seeing their posts and they’ll be notified that you’ve added them to your circles, so they’re likely to follow you back.  Be sure to send them a post welcoming them over and suggest some mutual friends and possibly some celebrities you’re following to help them get some useful stuff coming over in their stream.

BTW, if you want an invite to Google Plus, e-mail me at image.  That’s not a clickable e-mail address… It’s a picture to prevent spammers from easily scraping it.  You’ll need to type that address, exactly as you see it, including the G and the + in front of the word “Invite”.  I’d also appreciate you clicking the “+1” at the bottom of this post.

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You’ll find an actual working version of it at the bottom of this article. Please click the appropriate buttons in it to let your friends know about this article so they too can quickly quickly get up and going with Google+.

Check back later for updates too!

Click here to follow me on Google+.

Good Luck and Enjoy your new Google+ account!

Google+ (Google Plus) Android App: What you CAN do

 

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This article is not a “how-to” article.  It’s simply a list of the features found in the Android G+ app.  I might sprinkle a smidgen of “how-to” in it, but this is not, by any stretch of the imagination, documentation on how to use the app.

I’ve already written what the Google+ Android app can’t do here:

Google+ (Google Plus) Android App: What you CAN’T do

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Here are the things that it can do:

New as of about 9/20/2011:

  • Change your profile picture
  • Share a post.

From original version:

  • Profile Screen:  From here, you can see all of your posts and comments on them.
  • Stream Screen:  On here, you see posts from people you’re following and posts that people have posted to with you YOU in one of their circles that they’re posting to, and the comments to them, of course.
  • Nearby:  This is a feature that the browser version does NOT have.  While on your streams screen, swipe to the right to reveal the left stream, which shows you posts of people nearly.  By “nearby”, that’s approximately 15 or 20 miles in diameter.  You don’t have to have any kind of connection to these people whatsoever.  It’s a great way to meet new people.  I recently discovered a new Mexican restaurant in my neck of the woods that I’d have never found on my own.
  • Incoming:  This is the same as the “Incoming” stream on the web browser.  Swipe to the left to reveal it on the right.  This lists posts from people who are following YOU, but that you’re NOT following back.  These, are, of course, only their public posts.
  • Check In:  This is the check mark icon at the top of the Streams screen.  If you have location services enabled, it will find your location.  You can further refine it by choosing from a list of known, nearby places.  You can then post your location as a status update.  Others will see it as a link.  When they tap or click it, it’ll bring up their mapping software and show your geographical location.  WARNING!  DON’T DO THIS UNLESS YOU WANT PEOPLE KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU’RE NOT, LIKE NOT AT WORK OR NOT A HOME.  DON’T POST UPDATES THAT SAY, “DROPPING THE KIDS OFF” WITH THIS ENABLED.  YOU’RE ESSENTIALLY TELLING EVERY PERVERT STALKER PEDEFILE ON THE INTERNET, “HEY, I JUST DROPPED MY KIDS AT THIS EXACT GPS COORDINATE.  I’M LEAVING NOW, SO THEY’RE NO LONGER UNDER MY PROTECTION.  HAVE AT’EM!”  Seriously, use this feature SPARINGLY! and only when you KNOW there can’t be a security (or job) threat.
  • Upload photo:  This is also on the Streaming screen and is accessed via the camera icon on the top, just to the right of the check-in icon.  You can take a picture with it and upload it or upload an existing photo from your device.
  • Status Updates:  Also accessible on the Stream page, is a pencil icon, just to the right of the camera icon, on the top-right corner.  Use it to write a status update.  From there, you can also upload photos.
  • Comments:  While viewing any status update from yourself or anyone else, touch it and you can add a comment.
  • Filter by Circles:  In the menu, while in the stream screen, you can check on or off the posts from people in certain circles.  Note that you CANNOT create, change, or delete circles with the mobile app.
  • Notifications:  You can get notified of new posts, like you get notified when you receive a text message.  There’s a pane at the bottom o the home screen showing how many notifications you have.  You can drag it up to see them all, click them to view them.
  • Instant Upload:  You can set a setting to automatically upload your pictures when you take a picture.  I highly advise against this.  How many times have you accidentally taken a picture when you didn’t intend to?  Have your kids ever gotten ahold of your camera and started running around the house spanning pix of everything?  We have a few compromising photos from at least 2 events like that.  Turn this feature off.  It’s presented to you when you first run the app and it’s ON be default!
  • Send Feadback:  Always a great feature in any application.  It’s available in the menu.
  • Huddle:  This is a mobile app specific feature that’s not available in the web browser interface.  A huddle is essentially a group chat.  Note that at the time of this writing, there’s no way to delete a huddle, so be careful of what you say.  Wait, all you are always careful with what you say on the internet, AREN’T YOU?!?!?!?
  • Photos:  Manage your photo albums and view those of others.
  • Add people.  You can add people to your circles, but you can’t INVITE anyone with the mobile app.  You’ll need to browser for that.

That’s about it.  For more Google+ articles, please click here:

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Good Luck and Enjoy your new Google+ account!

Export your Facebook contacts to Google+

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Facebook has been making changes to their site and API in the last few weeks to try to stop the bleeding of facebookers to Google+ by making it more and more difficult to export your contacts.  It’s never been easy, but now it’s even harder, unless you know the one app that still has access to your contact data:  Yahoo! Mail!

Here’s how to export your facebook contact data to Google+.

In short, you’ll be doing this:

  1. Using Yahoo, import your Facebook contacts into your Yahoo contacts.
  2. Using Yahoo, export your Facebook contacts to a CSV file.
  3. Using your spreadsheet, filter out your non Facebook contacts.
  4. Using Google+, Import your Yahoo/Facebook contacts CSV file.

I recommend doing this NOW rather than LATER as this Yahoo Mail export will likely be closed off too, even if you don’t plan on moving to G+, it’s always good to have your contact data under your OWN control.

  1. Import your contacts from Facebook to Yahoo Mail.

    1. Log into your Yahoo mail account (http://mail.yahoo.com).  If you don’t have one, create one.  You don’t have to create a secondary one like other articles are claiming.
    2. Create a new contacts list (you’ll import your facebook contacts here):
      1. Click on your “Contacts” tab.
      2. Click on “New List”
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      3. Enter the name of your new contacts list.  I recommend “Facebook”:
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    3. Click on “All Contacts” (to make the Facebook import tool available), then click “Import Contacts”, then click “Facebook”.
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    4. You’ll be prompted to sign into Facebook, then prompted if you want to share your contacts with Yahoo, of course, you click “Okay”.
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    5. Click “View imported contacts”:
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    6. Now, move all those newly imported Facebook contacts into your Facebook contact list:
      1. Click “Select All”, then “Assign to Lists”, then check the “Faceboook” list.
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  2. Export your contacts to a CSV file:

    1. Open the “Actions” menu and choose “Export All”.

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    2. Click the “Export Now” button beside the “Yahoo CSV” text.

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      3. Choose a location to save your file.  THIS IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU REMEMBER WHERE YOU SAVED IT.  YOU’LL NEED TO FIND IT VERY SOON!!!!

    3. Skip to #4 if your Yahoo Mail account was freshly made and ONLY contains contacts from your facebook import.  This step is to help you filter out all the non Facebook contacts.

      1. Open your favorite spreadsheet program.  If you don’t have one, I strongly recommend LibreOffice.  It’s 100% free and is very compatible with Microsoft Office.

      2. Open your “yahoo_ab.csv” file that you just downloaded from Yahoo.  Your spreadsheet program will likely need some extra information about the format of your CSV file, since there are so many different ways.  Here’s the pertinent information you need to choose:

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        2. This image is from LibreOffice.  Microsoft Office Excel has a similar CSV import dialog box.  Click “OK” when you’re settings are right.

      3. A new spreadsheet will display your Yahoo Mail exported data.

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        2. Notice the “Category” column?  Some say “Facebook” (or, whatever you named your contact list in Yahoo before you imported your facebook data into it) and some don’t.

        3. Sort your spreadsheet by the “Category” column (Column F).

        4. Select all the rows that do NOT have “Facebook” as the category and delete those rows.

        5. Save you spreadsheet.  It’s up to you whether or not to overwrite your exported file or to save this as a new file.  Whichever you do, continue using THAT file in the next steps.  I’ll continue to refer to it as “yahoo_ab.csv”.  Do NOT save it as a spreadsheet file.  Keep it as a CSV file!!!

    4. Import into Google+

      1. Click your “Circles” tab at the top of the page, then click “Find people”, then “Upload address book”:

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      2. Your browser will provide you with a “File Open” dialog box.  Use that to browse to and find your “yahoo_ab.csv” file and choose it.

From there, you can drag them all into your Facebook circle (If you don’t have one, make one).

BTW, if you want an invite to Google Plus, e-mail me at image. That’s not a clickable e-mail address… It’s a picture to prevent spammers from easily scraping it. You’ll need to type that address, exactly as you see it, including the G and the + in front of the word “Invite”.

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You’ll find an actual working version of it at the bottom of this article. Please click the appropriate buttons in it to let your friends know about this article so they too can quickly quickly get up and going with Google+.

Check back later for updates too!

Click here to follow me on Google+.

Good Luck and Enjoy your new Google+ account!

Converting your Google account to a Google hosted domain account

 

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DON’T DO THIS IF YOU’RE A GOOGLE+ USER!!!!

Don’t do what?

Let me clarify:

Let’s say you own a domain name (or you were given an e-mail address on a domain by your school or company that uses Google apps and they have their own domain name (something other than gmail.com) and your e-mail address is something like YourName@YourCompany.org)

Now, let’s say you’ve created a Google account… say a Google+ account, to make it specific to what I’m about to explain.  You went to plus.google.com and created a new Google account.  The name of your Google account is YourName@YourCompany.org and you created a password.  Keep in mind that this is a different account than your e-mail account… the passwords may very well be different.

Somehow, when you log into your Google+ account, Google detects that you also have another account that’s not a Google account, but an e-mail account on your company’s or school’s hosted domain.  Google offers you the option to merge your accounts, or to copy everything from your Google account to your domain account with the same name.

DON’T DO THIS!!!!

Your domain account CANNOT USE GOOGLE+!  You’ll get an error message when you try to go to G+ after logging into your domain account.  Conversely, if you log into G+ with your Google account after you’ve done the conversion, then you’ll lose access to all your uploaded videos and photos.  Neither account will work right.

YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!

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You’ll find an actual working version of it at the bottom of this article.  Please click the appropriate buttons in it to let your friends know about this article so they too can avoid hosing their G+ accoun.

Check back later for updates too!

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Good Luck!

An appeal to Google+

[Update]:  As of around 2pm on 7/27/2011, my account was restored.  I’d like to thank whoever at Google re-enabled it and I’d like to thank those that petitioned Google on my behalf!  The following is my open letter to Google as it existed before my account was restored.

To whom it may concern,

You do not appear to provide a way for us to write any kind of explanation as to why we don’t use our real names on Google+.  You recently disabled my G+ account because I wasn’t using my real name and as such you’re concerned about SPAM.  That’s an understandable concern, but if you look at my history with you, going back to when GMail was still in “invite only” beta stages, I’ve had this account with you, using my pseudonym CSharpner for years and years.  I use this multiple places online to protect my real identity.  It’s the only way to be able to express opinions online without fear of someone finding where I live, my home phone number, and doing any kind of damage to me or my family, either financially, personally, or any kind of bodily harm.

If you’re concerned about spam, please read these articles I’ve written on how I’m in a continuing fight against spam.  Under NO circumstances would I EVER send spam.  You have a history of my online ID going back a decade or so, and you can confirm this.

Here are my anti-spam articles:

  1. How to Stop SPAM: Basic Tips
  2. How to Stop SPAM: Advanced Tips
  3. How to Stop SPAM: Expert Tips

As you’ll see, I use just about every online service you offer using this account.  I use it to make online payments, to receive online payments, for e-mail, for G+, for adsense, for analytics, for my Android phone, for just about everything.  You have my real name and address on file.

Please re-enable my Google+ account.

Thanks!
CSharpner

    Google+ (Google Plus) Suspended my account

    [Update]:  As of around 2pm on 7/27/2011, my account was restored.  I’d like to thank whoever at Google re-enabled it and I’d like to thank those that petitioned Google on my behalf!  The following was my announcement of my account suspension my request for your help as it existed before my account was restored.

    Well, G+ suspended my CSharpner account today apparently because I’m using my Pseudonym of CSharpner instead of my real name.  I have a G+ account I use with my real name for family and friends and a second one with my pseudonym for this blog. I have well over 200 people following me because they find my blog useful.  I prefer to remain anonymous but continue to provide technical help for people as is the intent of the free speech clause in the U.S. Constitution.

    Guys, I need your help.  Please log onto your G+ account.  In the upper-right corner, click the gear icon and choose “Send Feedback”.  In the feedback, please ask them to re-enable the account for “CSharpner CSharpner”.  Inform them that you’ve never received any spam from me and let them know if my blog articles are helpful.  Let them know you respect my right to remain anonymous and you support free speech as is intended in the U.S. Constitution to defend anonymity.

    When Google re-enables my account, I can continue to provide you with the articles you’ve been telling me you’ve been finding useful!

    THANKS!

    Google+ (Google Plus) errors today

    [Update] As it turns out, these errors were because Google had suspended my G+ account without warning.  I was not aware my account was disabled.  I had thought that there were just beta bugs happening.  My account has since been restored though.  So, if you get any of the following errors, your account is probably suspended.  Go to your profile page to check for sure.  If it is suspended, they’ll be a message on your profile page from Google informing you of the suspension.
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    Google+ seems to be having errors today with some accounts and not others.  For example, on one of my accounts (the one I use for this blog CSHARPNER), I cannot create circles, invite people, nor even post a status update.  Here’s an example of what I get when trying to invite people:
     
     
    “We were unable to deliver the invitations.  Please try again soon.”
     
    I do not get this error with my personal G+ account.  When trying to add a circle, I get, “Error creating circle”.  When posting a status update, I get: “There was a problem saving your post.  Please try again”
     
    I thought I try from my Android device.  Just posting an update gives me, “The application was unable to communicate with the cloud.  Please check your network connection or try again later.”
     
    Are you getting these errors too?  Please be sure to submit the problem to G+.  Here are simple instructions on how to do it:
     

    Google+ (Google Plus) You Should Most Definitely Leave Feedback

     

    Also, let us know what kinds of problems you’re having in the comments below.

     

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    You can get it here at FoxItSoftware.com.

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    You’ll find an actual working version of it at the bottom of this article.  Please click the appropriate buttons in it to let your friends know about this article so they too can rid themselves of the constant Adobe popups, legal agreements, and hogged resources that make up Adobe’s PDF reader.

    Check back later for updates too!

    Good Luck!