View Status Updates of Specific Circles in Google Plus

One more plus of Google Plus compared with Facebook is you get the privilege to view status updates (or we called it Streams) from only certain group of people (circles) you decided.

This feature is really useful if you have so many friends and your stream flooding by unimportant status so you can easily divide your stream to just showing updates from specific person you like.

Lets see how to view streams of specific circles in Google+.

First, log into your Google Plus account. On your homepage, as default, you will view all the updates by people who are in all your circles.

How to Get Direct Link of Status Updates in Google Plus

Whenever you want to share your interesting post or from your circles status updates you can use direct link to these single post address to show it to your friends outside of Google+.

But the problem is, where you can get direct link address of status updates in Google Plus?

Unlike another social networking like Facebook or Twitter which the direct links to these specific updates are almost "hidden", Google+ is more "open" about it.

Let me show you how to get direct link of status updates in Google Plus in simple way:

Share Updates with Specific Circles in Google Plus

If in Facebook we know something called "News Feed", then in Google Plus we called it "Stream". Where all the latest updates by those who are in your circle are displayed in this area.

If we talk about privacy control, then as when you post status updates in Facebook you get a Privacy Lock with the use of which you can define with whom you are comfortable in sharing those update.

Similar in Google Plus, if you want to make control your share stream with people whom only you want, you can do it very easy in Google Plus. But with one advantage: you are allowed to share these updates with many people at once and without the effort of creating those lists and groups. Sounds good right?

Here is how you do it:

How to Stop Google Plus Notifications?

Google will send you an e-mail or SMS notification for every activities on your G+ account. So if you had lots of active users in your Google+ Circles, it mights will flooding your e-mail inbox or make peoples arround you disturbed by your cellphone's ring.

By default Google Plus enable email notification for all users and sending email if your account have any changes like post sharing, comments on posts, photo tagging and so on. This post will tell you how you can stop e-mail and SMS notification from Google Plus. You can easily stop these email notification using these simple steps.

Steps to Stop Google Plus E-mail and SMS Notification

Disable-Enable Comments on Google Plus Posts

In some of my previous posts I've already told you that Google+ provides many privacy settings in your account to protects their users. And unlike Facebook, Google+ account settings is very easy and simple to understand. My last post about this was on how to disable/enable reshare on Google+.

And now, I will tell you one more privacy settings in Google Plus. After read this post, you can disable or enable comments on any posts of your stream. Unfortunately until now there's no way to disable/enable comments for all posts together in one single click. Hope in the next update Google will launch this feature.

Let's begin!

How to Block Persons on Google Plus?

Google+ allows you to remove or block any persons from your post wall to protect your privacy from specified users.

You can easily use this feature for any reason you want. And once you blocked someone from your stream, you should know what will happens:

1. You won't see their content in the stream or on Incoming (even though you'll remain in their circles).
2. They'll be removed from any circles of yours that they appear in.
3. They'll be removed from your extended circles even if you have mutual connections.
4. They won't be able to comment on your content that was posted after they were blocked.
5. The content you've previously shared with them will still be visible in their stream. But they can't engage with the post (comment, etc.)
6. They won't be able to view content shared with your circles (although they may still see content you post publicly).
7. They won't be able to mention you in posts or comments.

How to Disable/Enable Reshare on Google Plus Posts

In Google+ you can share any awesome posts from your Stream for your friends circle. You can use this option easily to distribute any good posts you liked over circles.

If you are a blogger then it most important feature for you because it can improves your blog visitors and everyone knows that social media play important role in website or blog success.

But sometime we want some post private only on our wall. And don't worry, that issue has been solved by Google also. You can use Disable reshare option feature in Google Plus. Of course you won't find this feature in Facebook (lol).

Check out the tutorial after the jump.

Beware of Google Plus Fake Sign Up Page!

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How to Send Google Plus Invitation?

It is almost 2 months after Google released Google+ with invitation only system and millions user already joined there. But, I don't know what happen with some of my friends that still asking me how to send Google Plus invitation to their friends?

But it's ok, in this tutorial we will discuss about 2 (two) various ways through which you can send invitations to your friends or contacts through Google Plus. Below tutorials are the basic of how to send Google+ invitation. Because there are more several ways to invite your friends based on different e-mail service provider protocols. If you think it's necessary to discuss, I'll show you in next posts.

Lets begin with the tutorial!

As I have already written a lot of tutorials about Google Plus, all you have to do first is of course log in to your Google+ account. Click here to log in, then follow these steps below:

Be Careful! Google Plus Invitations Spam Spreading

Getting into an invitation only system on a new service or social site is sometimes considered as a "status symbol". And folks want to proudly declare "I have a Google Plus account, I am so special". It's human nature, I think.

Google seems understand very well that things and used it well too when launched Google+ service with an invitation only. People are going crazy for a Google plus invite in early weeks of its release.

Unfortunately this situations is exploited by some peoples who are not responsible. Mostly done by spammers and some professionals to make their business out of it. They are creating a fake email template which exactly resembles the invitation email of Google Plus and they are sending the fake invitation email to random users from an email list they bought.

Here is how the fake email invitation of Google Plus looks like [courtesy: Naked Security]:

10 Sites to Create Shortened Google+ Profile URL

The main benefit of shortened URL is to make it easier for you to send this URL to your friends without having to remember for your Google profile id (the 21 digit number in the URL) like:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/106629607806000497486/posts

But unlike Facebook where you can have your profile URL short like http://www.facebook.com/username, Google don't have any official vanity URL for our Google+ profiles. So we have to use third party apps to shortened our Google+ profile URL. If you don't want to use any third party applications, you can see another tricks, using Google Profiles option or redirecting from your own domain name.

Here are 10 Sites to Create Shortened Google Plus Profile URL:

How to Create Short Google+ URL using Your Own Domain?

Previously I've posted two ways how to short Google+ profile URL, using Google Profiles option and using Gplus.to as a third party application.

In this post, I want to share with you the another way. This guide will show you how to create a short URL on your own web host that will redirect to Google Plus. So be sure you already have your own domain like .com, .net, .info or else and have access to your hosting server (no matter you rent or you get it free).

After completing these instructions, when someone types in http://www.yourdomain.com/myusername, they will be automatically redirected to your G+ profile page.

How to Recover Your Suspended Google+ Profile?

Yay, today I've got my Google+ profile back!!

As I've posted before, Google has suspended my Google+ profile for reason as not using my real name and use Google+ official logo as my profile picture. But then I tried to edit my profile name, deleting profile descriptions and change my profile image. Last, clicked on "submit your profile" link in the red box for reconsideration.

Apparently only in less than 24 hours my account was active again!

If you had same problems with me, you can also try like what I did in this post to recover your suspended Google+ profile back. But if this way not working, you can try this brief step by step below:

Free Google+ Invitation For You

Google Plus Invite is what people are searching for couple weeks since Google release it on June 28, 2011. Because Google launched Google+ in an invite-only for testing phase. That's why so many request and questions in Facebook and Twitter related to this topic.

I'm still remember how crazy the internet went when the invite-only Gmail first launched in 2004. A Gmail invitation became very prestigious moment when you receive it at that time.

Now Google+ (Google Plus), Google's latest attempt at a social networking service, has launched in similar invite-only form. Once you have got invitation, you can also become the part of this amazing social networking site. Do you want it?

The Basic Guidelines of How to Use Google+

If you already joined in Google+, there still may be awkwardness when trying to use this Google's new social networking. And the question is, "How do you get started with Google+?"

From Friendster, Friendfeed, MySpace and Facebook, users are familiar with how a social platform is theoretically supposed to look. At its core level, Plus is not that much different. Yet, there is so much more. So let me share you some tips of the basic guidelines how to use Google+.

These tips is based on my first short experience using Google+. If you have any questions or want to make corrections of it, please leave your comments in comments form below.

Let's break down the nuts and bolts.

The Complete Version of Google+ Cheat Sheet

Previously, I've wrote about 12 Shortcuts to Use in Google+ based on Google+ Cheat Sheet. But in this post, I want to share you the complete version of Google+ Cheat Sheet brought to you by Technostreak.com.

This tips and tricks would be simple and easy way to understand how to use your Google+. Because almost all basic tricks and functions have been listed here. And I think every Plusser (its first time I use this term to call users of Google+ :D) must be aware of.

If you prefer to see it on a single pic, you can download it here.

How to Edit and Delete Google+ Status?

This time I will write again one of the advantages Google+ compared to Facebook.

During this time when we finish writing the status on Facebook and then find an error in it we can not do anything to change that status. Unless we remove the status and then rewritten it again. Or at least Facebook give us just a little time to edit the status, but only in a few seconds. Very unpleasant isn't it?

Well, in this matter compared with his opponent, Google+ has benefits that can not be done by Facebook. In Google+ we can Edit and Delete the statusses everytime we want. And not only that, Google+ allows us to Report or Remove Comments if there are unpleasant comments. Plus, you can Disable (to next) Comments and Reshare in your status.

Pretty cool? And how to do that?

How to Import Facebook Friends to Google+?

I believe you already have many friends in your Facebook account. Hundreds? Thousands maybe? Well, there might be a "lonely feel" when you opened your Google+ account right? This is because your friends still not join in Google+ or maybe there was no body inviting them. That's can be also the reason you are not so enjoying Hangout or Huddle in Google+.

So why don't you start to invite your Facebook friends to join Google+?

Ah, yeah... inviting one by one will waste so much time and also needs lot of energy. Now, if you are wondering how to import data contacts from Facebook to Google+ easily, just follow these few simple steps.

How to Update Facebook Status from Google+? (2)

This is my second post about "How to Update Facebook Status from Google+?". And different from previous post, this time I will show you how to do it by using third-party applications.

Thanks for crossrider.com who has launched this apps!

But, hopefully the applications used in this tutorial will still work, considering Facebook being aggressively blocking applications that attempt to extract their users contact data to Google+. If not, you can still follow on my previous manual tips by clicking this link: "How To Update Facebook Status from Google+?".

Allright then, now follow these steps:

How To Update Facebook Status from Google+?

For those who have joined and enjoying Google+ (Google Plus) services, you may have read some news about Facebook's certain efforts to block some applications to move Facebook's data contacts to Google+. Facebook's defense efforts still might continue.

But there is one facility that is hard to be blocked up, Facebook update status using email delivery. This facility can be easily exploited by Google+ users to post or update your Facebook status directly from Google+ status simultaneously. This method is also open to update Twitter status all at once.

To outsmarting this you can follow these steps: