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I just added you, Chary.  It seems to be a bit different than FB where it seems like you can be in someone else's circle without them being in yours?  I am not sure how you request to follow someone's feed or if it happens automatically if they add you.  I do like the concentric circles of privacy though.

Got it! Thank you!

Here's a question: How do you move someone from one circle to another? A friend's niece added me yesterday and I plopped her in my Friends circle. But then, on reflection, I thought perhaps she belonged more in my Acquaintances circle (she's not a grown up). I dragged and dropped her profile pic and she got added to Acquaintances, but she's still also in Friends. How can I get rid of her there?

If you go to the "Circles" tab and click on the "Friends" circle, I *think* you can select her and then remove her from there...

I've had an invite for over a week now but every.single.time I try to get on it tells me it's at capacity. I don't understand!!

Just keep trying. They turn the invite access on and off through out the day (guessing so they can add/divert severs around accordingly) Most of the people Ive invited have been able to log in within an hour of receiving theirs..

I just added you, Chary.  It seems to be a bit different than FB where it seems like you can be in someone else's circle without them being in yours?  I am not sure how you request to follow someone's feed or if it happens automatically if they add you.  I do like the concentric circles of privacy though.

Think of it like email being 'pushed' to your phone. If someone is following you but you arent following them, theyll appear in your 'incoming' stream If youre both following each other, status updates, links, etc will appear in your 'Stream'

You can search for someone, and if theyre there, send a request by clicking on their names and adding them to a circle.

Got it! Thank you!

Here's a question: How do you move someone from one circle to another? A friend's niece added me yesterday and I plopped her in my Friends circle. But then, on reflection, I thought perhaps she belonged more in my Acquaintances circle (she's not a grown up). I dragged and dropped her profile pic and she got added to Acquaintances, but she's still also in Friends. How can I get rid of her there?

As NoseOverTail said, go to the circle, click on the person you want to move and drag and drop into the desired circle they should be in.

As NoseOverTail said, go to the circle, click on the person you want to move and drag and drop into the desired circle they should be in.

Yup, that's what I did. But now she appears in both circles. It didn't remove her from the first one.

Yup, that's what I did. But now she appears in both circles. It didn't remove her from the first one.

If you hover over her name, a box should pop up that lists the circles she's in. You can untick her from the circle you'd like her to leave.

If you hover over her name, a box should pop up that lists the circles she's in. You can untick her from the circle you'd like her to leave.

I figured it out! Thank you! 

Just as an FYI: Drag and drop will only add the person to a new circle, not move them from one to another.

I figured it out! Thank you! 

Just as an FYI: Drag and drop will only add the person to a new circle, not move them from one to another.

Ohh apologies if that wasnt clear. Sorry. I havent had to move anyone around - YET...

I uploaded a ton of photos, saw that it showed up in my feed that I uploaded them. Thought, "hmm, that must be annoying for people seeing my feed" so I deleted it from my feed.  It deleted the photos.  A bit annoying.

I've just joined too!

Argh! I STILL can't get on! I've been home most of the day and keep reloading the page and nada.

Grrrr.

I uploaded a ton of photos, saw that it showed up in my feed that I uploaded them. Thought, "hmm, that must be annoying for people seeing my feed" so I deleted it from my feed.  It deleted the photos.  A bit annoying.

You don't have to share them. If you just upload w/o sharing, no one will know unless they click on the photos bit of your profile. There are definitely bugs for them to sort though.

I've joined but I'm a bit on the fence about it. I've been on FB since a month or two since it launched at Harvard, when it was still "exclusive" to the Ivies, Standford, NYU & BU but in general, I don't use every new social network out there. But I joined, so we'll see. It's mostly only one person posting on my stream for now, it seems like everyone's waiting to see what everyone else does. I could see the circles thing coming in handy--I don't always post things on fb because I'm hesitant to post something that all the people I haven't spoken to since HS can see. And I can't be bothered to make lists. Being forced to stick people in "circles" is probably good.

If anyone still needs an invite, feel free to PM me as well.

The more I use it, the more I can see myself using it almost strictly for those people I actually interact with on the internet.  The circles make it so easy to just add someone because you're being nice and then never have to bother with them!   

You can change the focus of your feed so that you only see stuff from certain circles instead of having to click each person you DON'T want to hear from and saying "do not show in feed".  But then, if you decide "Hey, I want to see what the people in the 'Randoms from High School' Circle are doing", you can just switch over for a minute.  I feel like I have so much more control!

I uploaded a ton of photos, saw that it showed up in my feed that I uploaded them. Thought, "hmm, that must be annoying for people seeing my feed" so I deleted it from my feed.  It deleted the photos.  A bit annoying.

Yeah, I had the same problem.  When I did some test pictures of my dog I noticed it.  There is the send feedback button down at the bottom, so you can report it.