google+ stresses me

Okay, so Google+, question, because I am possibly losing numerology or something.

Under Circles, it says People In Your Circle (X) and People Who Have Added You (Y). These numbers are entirely different from the numbers in my profile: In Jenn's Circle (small number) and Have Jenn in Circles(very small number). Is this a bug or am I missing something here that's so painfully obvious I will be shamed forever?

I think I can prove fangirl geek credentials that I actually accepted the invitation with no clear idea what it was and I'm still wandering around it doing the equivalent of decorating in the dark.

*pokes it carefully* No biting yet. But I am getting wary about this name business coming up in the Stream.

...does that sound like a Farscape thing for a really speical wormhole? The Stream. Huh.

Comments

[therienne]

It's a bug. It's driving me crazy.

[seperis]

I was afraid of that.

There are bugs...

[elke_tanzer]

There are definitely bugs. But also, I think one of the ways of looking at your Circles includes the people you've added email-only who are not part of G+ yet, and one of the other ways of looking at Circles only includes those folks who are already in G+. I think.

If you'd like to decorate in a bit of light, or simply share wariness about the name thing, c'mon over to googleplus...

Re: There are bugs...

[seperis]

So very there now.

[scy]

I would help except I don't have Google+ yet. *is bitter*

[seperis]

I sent you an invite!

[scy]

Thanks!

tty tonight?

[rivkat]

People can decide whether their inclusion of you in their circles will be public, I believe. You can't hide that you're following someone from that person, but other relationships can be private.

[seperis]

*nods* No, that makes sense, but on my Profile page the numbers are at the very first two people who added me that I added back.

God, I have been a program tester too long. I caught myself opening MSWord to write up the inconsistencies on each page with matching screenshots showing the discrepancies. This is so not a good sign.

LOL!

[elke_tanzer]

Have you tried out the Send Feedback mechanism yet? It allows you to highlight portions of the screen, and black out other portions to obscure personal details, and type in a description of the issue. Google asks that each feedback sent be single-issue-related, though, so no concatenating different feedback bits into one glumph.

:-)

Re: LOL!

[seperis]

...the thing is, I'm actually tempted now. Also, since they aren't paying me, I don't have to disguise my sarcasm with unsettlingly sincere questions.

Re: LOL!

[nagasvoice]

I love your phrase, "unsettlingly sincere questions."
My mom calls it "the blue-eyed stare." Lil old gramma giving you the solemn stare.

[elizaria]

How does one actually get Google+ then?
/curious

[kate]

Actually, it's not a bug. One of the earliest posts on my streams was about privacy, and how if you don't want to show everyone who's in your circles, you can change a setting to not make that public. I found that no one who'd 'circled' me in the beginning was in my list, but later people were, because they hadn't changed that setting. At least, I attributed it to that... I could be totally wrong there.

[faith-girl222.livejournal.com]

i don't have google+ yet so maybe i'm missing something, but maybe it works on the friended/friend of model like on lj?

[seperis.livejournal.com]

It doesn't...seem to be yet.

[arkanefyre.livejournal.com]

...I uh. Have no idea, but if you happen to have an invitation lying around, I could poke at it for you? *innocent grin*

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I keeps popping up randomly; leave your email and if I see it come up before I click away I'll send? I warm you, it took about a day for my invite to work.

[arkanefyre.livejournal.com]

You da bestest! Thanks, though. My fb has been raving about it.

arkanefyre(at)gmail.com

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

Can't add you back till the people invited also get Google+ access.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I sent you an invite; did it work or are you on yet? It took a day for google to let me join after my invite.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

got the invite. Said they would email me when I could make an account.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Keep the email and randomly click taht button thing once in a while; it took about a day for it to work for my invite.

[telepresence.livejournal.com]

Part of it is people who you've added who aren't actually in Google+ yet, you just have an email notification relationship with them.

Part of it is that Google+ is super crazy laggy right now in terms of all the back end database information synchronizing. I would bet that by this time tomorrow your numbers will have updated somewhat.

Part of it may be privacy settings. I believe Google is eventually going to force all Profiles to be public, but for now, some private ones may not display the same way everywhere when Google+ is counting up who you're connected to.

[luminosity]

FWIW, I have NO IDEA what's going on with Google+, but I'm in there screwing around. Lemme know if you figure it out. :)

[born2rumble1st.livejournal.com]

Basically, the people you add to your circles can see your posts, but you can't see theirs until they add you to their circles. So everyone who is listed in "Jenn's Circles" are people who can read what you've posted, and everyone in "Have Jenn in Circle" has allowed you to see their posts. I think this is to allow for one sided following like twitter has, rather than making everyone be mutual friends like Facebook.

Truth in both things mentioned above

[(Anonymous)]

It is Twitter-esque in that you have to choose to "follow" back, but I also think Google's back end is lagging in updates to this (and other things). I noticed it took a long time for my updated profile pic to show up in other folks' circles.

It does make you feel a bit like a loser when it shows you have tons of folks in your circle and you're only in one other person's circle. But if you check their actual circle, there you are.